"How obscene and astonishing it was, she thought, that amidst all this digital plenty, there could still be nothing."
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
came via @boadams1 at 2013 NYSAIS Assistant Heads/Division Heads Conference
"People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel" - Maya Angelou
“If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.” - John Maxwell
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Toughness on issues, tenderness with people
Doug Conant, former CEO of Campbell Soup via Tony Schwartz's article The Only Thing That Really Matters
I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.
A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "yes" uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
- Audre Lorde
Every Wednesday I attend construction meetings as we work to complete our new high school. Today I heard the most wonderful phrase today that made me think about both how little and how much construction has changed in the last few centuries:
"The tin knocker is working on exiting the dog house."
Yes, we have a trade on site known as the tin knocker, and there is a structure in place known as a dog house. I am learning a lot each week.