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-Andre Watts Only by going over a phrase many timesdo I feel comfortable with it. -Radu Lupu Practice is the best of all instructors. -Publilius Syrus Everybody is liable to make mistakes, but fools practice them. -Unknown Practicing is working out the things that need to be worked out. -Daniel Abrams It's only when each hand can be independent that they can function together succ essfully. -Daniel Abrams Practice is the best of all instructors. -Publius Syrus Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him r idiculous. -Unknown Practice is the key to the secret of flying. -Wilbur Wright Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and ski ll. -Cicero Pragmatism examines results "it shifts the emphasis and looks forward. It is the attitude of looking away from first things (principals, categories, supposed ne cessities) and of looking toward last things (fruits, consequences, facts.)" -W illiam James I can live for two months on a good compliment. -Mark Twain Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. -Charles Cal eb Colton There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learni ng, as is praise. -Roger Ascham I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go. -Abraham Lincoln What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four. Unknown Pray, v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, May the rain fall soft upon your fields, And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand. -Unknown, "An Irish Wish" (I) frequently get down on my knees in gratitude for the greatest gift I ever re ceived--the gift of life. -Og Mandino Unanswered petitions are not unheard. God keeps a file for our prayersthey are no t blown away by the wind, they are treasured in the King's archives. This is a r egistry in the court of heaven wherein every prayer is recorded. -Charles H. S purgeon It is better to establish a good precedent than to follow a bad one. -Unknown Socratic Thinking=Demand for accurate definitions, clear thinking, exact analysi s. It is the theory that decides what can be observed. -Albert Einstein Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It wasn't reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. -Sydney Smith America's greatness is on the line every day. A proud man is seldom a grateful m an for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. -Henry Ward Beecher The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. -C.L. De Montesquieu I'll bet that not one in a hundred knows their rights as an American citizen. Ho w can we appreciate and use our rights if we don't know them? Boltzmann's great insight was that when in the dark, you make your way by probability. By probabil ity, the blind Helen Keller makes her way across a room. By probability, a scien tist could glimpse into the dark of the microcosm. -George Gilder Think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by t aking time. -Abraham Lincoln Some people think in terms of problems and some in terms of solutions. -Unknown The real world you work in every day is not multiple choice. -Michael McCarthy It is a characteristic of all our family to be able to see the weak points of an ything, but this is not always a desirable quality as it makes us too conservati

ve for successful businessmen and limits our friendships to a very limited circl e. -Wilber Wright Herbert Spencer made a parallel list of reasons for and against a decision, givi ng each reason a numerical value. A problem well stated is a problem half solved . -Charles Kettering Most people spend more time and energy in going around problems than in trying t o solve them. -Henry Ford Solve problems by focusing on the solution, not dwelling on the problem. -Sayin g The whole of human history is problem-solving. -Ray Bradbury It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. -Albert Einstein But, for problem solving in general, I would turn to Einstein's methods: generat e lots of ideas, use your imagination, play with the ideas and make new combinat ions with your ideas; and, make things as simple as possible, not simpler. -Mic hael Gelb For, in the first place, they (mathematicians) are so much in doubt concerning t he motion of the sun and the moon, that they cannot even demonstrate and prove b y observation the constant length of a complete year; and in the second place, i n determining the motions both of these and of the five other planets, they fail to employ consistently one set of first principles and hypotheses . . . Nor hav e they been able to discover or calculate from these the main point, which is th e shape of the world and the fixed symmetry of its parts; but their procedure ha s been as if someone were to collect hands, feet, a head, and other members from various places, all very fine in themselves, but not proportionate to one body, and no single one corresponding in its turn to the others, so that a monster ra ther than a man would be formed from them. -Nicolaus Copernicus The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation. -Abraham Lincoln Problems create a teaching moment. A moment when people are open to new wisdom. -Jeff Saltzman The greatest need is the transformation of human nature. -Billy Graham Look through your customer's eyes. Are you the solution provider or part of the problem? -Marlene Blaszczyk Things without remedy should be without regard. -William Shakespeare The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise a nd thinking that having problems is a problem. -Theodore Rubin Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. -Miguel de Cervantes