"In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety."
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow
| LIFE Thought for the Day
- Thread starter It Takes Eleven
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Slow day?
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
- Emerson
- Emerson
John Thompson kept a deflated basketball on his desk at Georgetown. For recruits. Especially those he had reason to believe were interested only in playing basketball and not interested in going to school.
"Son, the ball doesn't bounce forever. When it stops, you had better have an education."
"Son, the ball doesn't bounce forever. When it stops, you had better have an education."
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
There is no stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls.
James Garfield
James Garfield
