Henry Tian's List: Quotation

• “Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ”

  • the word 'courage" struck me. as it expand my mind
    - all great achievement in my life was as a result of courage. so it is not appropriate to picture me as timid person
    this is my act of courage
    exp: choosed to marry sufi with short time
    - came to USA with such decisiveness and certainty
    - bought hawk lane house, confidently believe God said "You are ready" When He said i am ready, it means I am ready regardless what i think or feel 
• “Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
• A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.”
• “Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of
  heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.”

  • Revelation
    i think i am in this category.
    i love beauty, inner beauty specifically; the wisdom

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• “The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” 
  ―  James Allen
• “Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.” 
  ―  James Allen

  • "the usage of temptation" in above life's turmoil writing.
    Me- Anger
• “He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”

  • i just read J. meyer 'love outloud" may 20- Real Giving
    'the greater the opportunity, the greater the sacrifice must be"
    "in God's economy nothing cheap is worth having"
    "True giving is not giving until i can feel it"
• “The visions you glorify in your mind,
  The ideals you enthrone in your heart..
  This you will build your life by...
  This you will become.”
• Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. ” 
  ―  James Allen 

     

   

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  • - J. rohn; success is a few discipline practice daily
    my paying attention to observe intentional daily god habits.
    exp: habits read outloud to winston, habits 5x salad lunch, habits 10 golden list on the bed (book "ultimate life"), habit early morning wake-up for foundational meditation, habits memorizing verses, habits of sports (excercising) to  get fresher and alert more often than not.
• “A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.” 
  ―  James Allen,    As a Man Thinketh   

     

   

  • Calm is power
• There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.”
• The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going” 
  ―  James Allen
• Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.”

  • Calm is power. it thrill my mind

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• You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

• Whatever good things we build end up building us.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn
• Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn

  • steven covey + john kotter
    : do important things with sense of urgency
• There are some things you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on." -- Jim Rohn” 
  ―  Jim Rohn,    The Art of Exceptional Living
• “For what it will make of you to achieve it.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn

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• You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn
• “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn

  • now, i pay attention and strive to make purposeful daily habits:
    - 1 golden lists on bed, verses, read out-loud for winston,  salads for winston, 
    - next: gaze on 12 months calendar until i can see it
    - next: go over vocabularies caught from reading out loud
• If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn

  • " you must want to win" nov 2, 2013 north lake college with Joe's tennis coach to his high school student
• “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment” 
  ―  Jim Rohn

  • daily habits
• Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn

  • i believe in purposeful daily habits with discipline. not a burden but with excitement
• “When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn

  • "you must want to win, Henry. 
    "you must want to win, Gaby"
• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn

  • you must pay the price.
    the greater the opportunity, the greater the price (sacrifice0 you must to pay.  
    Never think to get  it free
• Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn

  • this is for me. I have been thinking about it for days. 
• Either you run the day or the day runs you..” 
  ―  Jim Rohn

  • You must design/plan your day. or the day (circumstances) will plan it for you

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• Words are the clothes thoughts wear.” 
  ―  Samuel Beckett
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    “The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.” 
• “I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, "Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?" The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars” 
  ―  Jim Rohn
• Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing!
  Words keep introducing their friends to you.” 
  ―  Toba Beta,    My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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• “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” 
  ―  Henry Ford
• “Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing but God himself is finally an end in itself. Thinking is not the goal of life. Thinking can be the ground for boasting. Thinking, without prayer, without the Holy Spirit, without obedience, without love, will puff up and destroy (1 Cor. 8:1).
  
  But thinking under the mighty hand of God, thinking soaked in prayer, thinking carried by the Holy Spirit, thinking tethered to the Bible, thinking in pursuit of more reasons to praise and proclaim the glories of God, thinking in the service of love--such thinking is indispensable in a life of fullest praise to God.” 
  ―  John Piper 

     

   

• “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.” 
  ―  Warren Buffett
• “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.” 
  ―  Albert Einstein 

     

   
• “Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.” 
  ―  Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica,    Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
• learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

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• If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.
  
  Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation.
  
  It will do both of you good.” 
  ―  Vera Nazarian,    The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.” 
  ―  Steve Jobs
• “The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.” 
  ―  M.T. Dismuke
• The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.” 
  ―  Albert Einstein
• Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."
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    “I could not think without writing.” 
  ―  Jean Piaget 

     

   

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• “We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.”

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• “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” 
  ―  Steve Jobs
• We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” 
  ―  Albert Einstein
• “When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
• “When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.” 
  ―  Abraham Lincoln
• Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” 
  ―  Confucius
• “People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.” 
  ―  Anthony de Mello
• Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.” 
  ―  Harriet Martineau
• The thought process can never be complete without articulation.” 
  ―  Stephen King,    The Stand

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• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” 
  ―  John Locke
• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” 
  ―  Henry Ford
• “Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever.” 
  ―  Elizabeth Gilbert,    Eat, Pray, Love

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• Five percent of the people think;
  ten percent of the people think they think;
  and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” 
  ―  Thomas A. Edison
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    “Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.” 
  ―  Scott Westerfeld,    Uglies   

     

   

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    “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind” 
  ―  Jim Morrison 

     

   

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• “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.” 
  ―  Harlan Ellison

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• “Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.” 
  ―  John Wooden,    Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
• “We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.” 
  ―  Woodrow Wilson 

     

   
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    “It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.” 
  ―  Ezra Taft Benson
• “Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring”

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    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” 
  ―  Augustine of Hippo

  • Henry: this quotation amused me. Part of my desire to conquer coppel by strolling with winston.
    Also, i beleive i will go around the world. 
    My job: i can work from anywhere in the world and at anytime
• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” 
  ―  C.S. Lewis
• Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
  "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.” 
  ―  Christopher Paolini,    Eragon
• “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” 
  ―  Robert Frost
• “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” 
  ―  Doris Lessing,    The Golden Notebook   

     

   
• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” 
  ―  Charlotte Brontë,    Jane Eyre

  • toward caucasian, thai and vietnamese accents, black educational level
• Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” 
  ―  Heath L. Buckmaster,    Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale

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• Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” 
  ―  Margaret Mead
• “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” 
  ―  Confucius

  • it does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you go to the right direction
• “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” 
  ―  Plato

  • nullHenry: i learn from subject that amuses me. That's how i found my geniuses -- 2013-03-17
    the key word is: Amuse -- 2013-03-17
    
• I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.” 
  ―  Bill Watterson,    The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes
• The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.” 
  ―  Noam Chomsky
• The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” 
  ―  Thomas Jefferson
• “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ” 
  ―  Pete Seeger
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    “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” 
  ―  Jim Rohn 

     

   

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• “I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.” 
  ―  Ray Bradbury

  • see link: On the occasion of his 80th birthday in August 2000, Bradbury said, "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me
• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” 
  ―  Isaac Asimov

  • Henry: I strongly beleive it.
• Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” 
  ―  John Lubbock

  • in them, i find inspiration.
• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” 
  ―  Derek Bok
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    “When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” 
  ―  John Taylor Gatto 

     

   

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• “Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.” 
  ―  Jiddu Krishnamurti,    Education and the Significance of Life

  • the involvement of organized religious in educating workers and soldiers.
• Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.” 
  ―  May Sarton

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    “Play is the highest form of research.” 
  ―  Albert Einstein
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    “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds
• “The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”
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    “Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” 
  ―  George Macaulay Trevelyan 

     

   

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  • AGREE. Guide Gab, Winston and Sufi to be able to choose books worth reading
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    “All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” 
  ―  Walter Scott 

     

   

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  • those that has reached level of WISDOM. those that has reached level of self studied
• “We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.” 
  ―  Ralph Waldo Emerson,    Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way
• A good education consists of much more than useful facts

  • do not just teach gaby facts.

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