Quotes by Speakers - Page 108

The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.
Bryant McGill
Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself.
Bryant McGill
If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.
Bryant McGill
Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.
Bryant McGill
If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.
Bryant McGill
We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.
Bryant McGill
When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.
Bryant McGill
Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.
Bryant McGill
People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.
Bryant McGill
One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.
Bryant McGill
Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.
Bryant McGill
There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source.
Bryant McGill
Your unresolved issues will continue to call-in experiences to teach you what you need to learn.
Bryant McGill
Learn to understand your energy and how you create with your energy.
Bryant McGill
Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water.
Bryant McGill
Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness.
Bryant McGill
When teaching someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary, and more from the way the boundary is established.
Bryant McGill
You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you.
Bryant McGill
Speak kindly to and of yourself.
Bryant McGill
Learn to experience yourself without judging yourself.
Bryant McGill
You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.
Bryant McGill
Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.
Bryant McGill
For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants — there will only continue to be the hard and painful lessons you so desperately need. The invisible hand will hold you in your wretched place until your last breath — unless you evolve. If you are cruel and ignorant the invisible fist will pound you into oblivion until you submit, humble yourself and soften your hard heart.
Bryant McGill
I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't want to hurt my friends' feelings. But I'd rather stay home. At a friend's house you have to do the things other people want to do. I like hanging out with my mom after school because I can learn from her. She's been alive longer than me. We have thoughtful conversations. I like having conversations because they make people happy.
Susan Cain
The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.
Adam Fletcher
It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.
Adam Fletcher
It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.
Adam Fletcher
The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process.
Adam Fletcher
Everyday more educators are showing that they value students by involving them in meaningful ways in school. These teachers and administrators say that it is not about ‘making students happy’ or allowing students to run the school. Their experience shows that when educators partner with students to improve learning, teaching and leadership in schools, school change is positive and effective.
Adam Fletcher
Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.
Adam Fletcher
The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they’ll teach you what you don’t want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness.
Vironika Tugaleva
Without setbacks and mistakes, no experience. Without experience, no learning. And without learning, you’ll never truly understand the awakening of your heart’s desires.
Robbie Vorhaus
To be free, you have to examine authority, the whole skeleton of authority, tearing to pieces the whole dirty thing. And that requires energy, actual physical energy, and also it demands psychological energy. By the energy is destroyed, is wasted when one is in conflict. So when there is the understanding of the whole process of conflict, there is the ending of conflict, there is abundance of energy. Then you can proceed tearing the house that you have built throughout the centuries and that has no meaning at all. You know, to destroy is to create. We must destroy, not the buildings, not the social or economic system, - this comes about daily – but the psychological, the unconscious and the rationally, individually, deeply and superficially. We must tear through all that to be utterly defenseless, because you must be defenseless to love and have affection. Then you see and understand ambition, authority, and you begin to see when authority is necessary and at what level. Then there is no authority of learning, no authority of knowledge, no authority of capacity; no authority that function assumes and which becomes status. To understand all authority – of the gurus, of the Masters, and others – requires a very sharp mind, a clear brain, not a muddy brain, not a dull brain.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one's daily life, and above all one must be aware of fear. One must be aware of oneself neither introspectively nor analytically, but actually be aware of oneself as one is and see if it is at all possible to be entirely free of all those issues that seem to clog the mind.To explore, there must be freedom, not at the end, but right at the beginning. Unless one is free one cannot explore, investigate or examine. Two things are essential: freedom and the act of learning. One cannot learn about oneself unless one is free, free so that one can observe, not according to any pattern, formula or convept, but actually observe oneself as one is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals. There is no learning if thought originates from conclusions. Merely to acquire information of knowledge is to not to learn. Learning implies the love of understanding and the love of doing a thing for itself. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion through influence, thought attachment or threat, through persuasive encouragement or subtle forms of reward. Most people think that learning is encouraged through comparison, whereas the contrary is the fact. Comparison brings about frustration and merely encourages envy, which is called competition. Like other forms of persuasion, comparison prevents learning and breeds fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.
Paul Sloane
Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.
T.F. Hodge
The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.
Susan Cain
Embrace high expectations from “demanding” parents if what they are demanding is your positive growth and learning.
Jason L. Ma
The most dangerous way we sabotage ourselves is by waiting for the perfect moment to begin. Nothing works perfectly the first time, or the first fifty times. Everything has a learning curve. The beginning is just that - a beginning. Surrender your desire to do it flawlessly on the first try. It's not possible. Learn to learn. Learn to fail. Learn to learn from failing. And begin today. Begin now. Stop waiting.
Vironika Tugaleva
The mind delights in making connections.
Nicholas Boothman
To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.
Vironika Tugaleva
Since then I’ve come to believe you don’t always have to use things you love, and it’s not always so practical to be so practical. Now that I’ve grown up, I realize that all that delicious dilettantism pays its way as much as any degree in medicine or engineering, by making me remember every day—whenever I pick up a book or watch the Science Channel or try to read a map of Asia for no particular reason—that life is amazing and there is no end to the wonder of it.
Barbara Sher
Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don't.
Ken Robinson
There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.
Vironika Tugaleva
I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.
Elisabeth Elliot
Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet.
Bryant McGill
Beautiful food and health are priceless.
Bryant McGill
Each day carries in the blessings of God and you have unlimited access to all it offers.
Steve Maraboli
We all draw breath and life from the same source of creation.
Bryant McGill
The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.
Bryant McGill
We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.
Bryant McGill
We live in a culture of violence.
Bryant McGill
What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?
Bryant McGill
Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.
Roger Housden
Life is an endless attempt to word the unwordable, to make what cannot be touched walk on the ground, to embody what can never be fit inside a single lifetime. We see reflections of ourselves in sunrises, hear our perfection in thunderstorms and babies' laughter--touch, taste and feel--and then try to somehow remember all of that while taking out the trash, paying bills and a million other ways we have invented to forget.We weave together within ourselves mud and spirit, shadow and light, animal and angel.No wonder humans feel crazy most of the time.But you aren't crazy. You are doing a heroic thing by being here as yourself.
Jacob Nordby
The love of God is constantly active and present. His love didn't just happen once. It's forever moving in you and in your life.
Stormie Omartian
You see, God didn't create us to merely survive. He created us to thrive! We were made for abundant life.
Dana Arcuri
Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.
Ken Poirot
Life is a crazy mixture of intoxicating cocktails.
Ken Poirot