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            So, You're Gifted...A Web Quest of Self-Discovery

Quotes – What’s your personal motto?

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

 

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

 

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

 

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt (1772 - 1834)

 

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

 

Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

 

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce 

 

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle' 

 

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes (1919 -

 

To find yourself, think for yourself.  

Socrates

 

To avoid criticism: do nothing; say nothing; be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

 

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Paul Sondreal

 

We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

The Talmud

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.
Einstein

Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it.

Unknown

 

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own mistakes.

Ludwig van Beethoven

 

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom 

 

Success is failure that tried one more time.

Unknown

 

Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter

 

 

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence J. Peter

 

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
C. Archie Danielson

 

 

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan

 

 

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.
Liane Cardes

 

 

It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Charles Du Bos

 

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Howard Aiken

 

 

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso

 

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes

 

Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, small minds discuss personalities.
Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Alexander Pope

 

 

 

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Designed by Jeryl Phillips

Peel District School Board

2003-2004

 

Updated Nancy Bosch

Shawnee Mission Schools

2008-2009