“Should is an ordinary, everyday word -- except when it is used to indicate an order that may not be refused. Then should becomes a finger waving under the nose. …Should users build prison cells for themselves. They are so focused on what they should do -- that they cannot think about what they can do, what they might do in the future.”
-- Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose Dewolf
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer
... Robert Louis Stevenson
Just for fun ... "To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time."
- P.G. Wodehouse's dedication in "The Heart of a Goof"
" You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."
Clay P. Bedford
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. - Brian Tracy
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laurence Clarke Powell said ... “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...”
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
-- Francis Bacon
“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
-- Anthony Robbins
“I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.”
-- Stephen Covey
