#so

God uses imperfect people for impossible tasks ↗

— John Paul Warren

#leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #sozo-global #leadership

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#commercials #had #hear #i #i remember

Engage the enemy more closely. ↗

— Charles Faddis

#leadership #war #leadership

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. ↗

— John Dewey

#educational-system #philosophy #education

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #music #simile #song #life

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources? ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#education #environment #parenthood #parenting #resources

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#life-lessons #life

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes. ↗

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

#economic-growth #education #indomitable-spirit #knowledge #learning

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#cherry-blossoms #haiku #japan #life #poetry

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ↗

— John Milton

#censorship #ideas #intellect #life