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Mr. Napoleone's English Language Arts Website |
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Favorite Quotes,
Phrases, Sayings and Ideas Compiled by Mr. Napoleone |
| "It's good to be busy, that's how you know you are living, otherwise you have one foot in the grave." -Elvira Napoleone |
| "I don't care what the answer is, but rather how you got that answer." Hari Koirala -my math professor at ECSU |
| “Nobody really cares if you are miserable, so you might as well be happy.” Cynthia Nelms |
| "What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail." |
| "Let what you love, be what you do." Rumi |
| “Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to
convince a person who wan |
| “A man’s success should be measured ‘not so much by the position he has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome.’” Booker T. Washington |
| "People that complain have too much time on their hands." Tony Napoleone |
| "Once Mohandas Gandhi was asked, 'You have been working at least 15 hours a day, everyday for almost 50 years. Don't you think it's time for a vacation?' Gandhi replied, 'I am always on vacation." Dean Baker |
| "Probably anyone who never made a mistake, never made a discovery." Samuel Smiles |
| "....doctors have found, ironically that building health is often the best way to defeat illness." Dean Baker |
| "You know who you really are when no one's looking." |
| "Until lions have their historians, all tales of hunting will glorify the hunter." African proverb |
| "It's not how many ideas you have, it's how many you make happen." |
| "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." Paulo Coelho from The Alchemist |
| "It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary." Paulo Coelho |
| "We want to expose children to all sorts of Disciplines and then say, find your passion." Mina Campos |
| "When taking a test, think like the test makers." |
| "You can choose to concentrate on the negatives, or you can find your true strength in the challenges." Price M. Cobbs - from the book Cracking the Corporate Code |
| "It's having a better recipe that counts, not just more cooking." |
| “After awhile, you learn that what you really are is all the experiences and all the thoughts you’ve ever had and all the people who have touched your life, no matter how briefly.” O.W. Holmes |
| “A genius is a talented person who does his homework.” Thomas Edison |
| "If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the alter of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams." Yann Martel |
| "There will always be people who will disagree and feel otherwise on a topic or situation." T.N. |
| "The moment when you think you have finished is the moment when the real work begins." |
| “What happens in class depends upon what the students have done before the class begins.” |
| "Education is not the filling of a vessel, but the kindling of a flame." Socrates |
| "Love and Laughter are the essence of Life!" Bill Emmott |
| "Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts." Lisa Ling |
| "Asking for help when you need it, doesn't make you weak." |
| "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless." Mother Teresa |
| "A lot of people can be athletic, it's what you do with it." |
| "We must teach to the child, not to the test." |
| "Students' needs, not a test's objectives, must drive instructional decisions." |
| "Life is a game an as soon as you become serious about it - you've lost!" |
| "Tell me - I forget, show me - I remember, Involve me - I understand" |
| "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller |
| "Studies have demonstrated that learning is enhanced when individuals have knowledge of and apply appropriate monitoring or executive strategies during the learning process." p.g. 31 How Students Learn |
| "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves and it's tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince |
| "Thought - How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" |
| "Success is keeping an even Keel - being confident about who you are and what you're doing." Molly Bingham |
| "It's all about turning good into great." |
| "Success is something only you can define." |
| "With his tear-streaked face, he looked like a little angel whose wings had been clipped." p.g.136 From the book called Year of Impossible Goodbyes |
| "Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far they can go." T.S. Eliot |
| "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, than giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our ATTITUDE...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our ATTITUDES." Charles Swindell |
| "If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay that way, but if you treat him as if he were what he could be, he will become what he could be." Goethe |
| "People remember you for your successes and not your failures." |
| "Energy, Creativity and Passion." |
| "Television are for people who are less educated, who travel less and who read fewer books." |
| "Saving a single life is like saving an entire world." Mishnah Sanhedrin |
| "When you study a text, it should never be studied alone. Study leads to action." |
| "Think out of the Box." |
| "To listen is to pay attention, take an interest, care about, take to heart, validate, acknowledge, be moved...appreciate." |
| "More than we like to realize, we continue to live in the shadow of the families we grew up in." |
| "To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where your are now so that the steps you take are always in the right direction." Stephen R. Covey |
| "Imagination creates energy and power." |
| "Luck occurs when preparation meets opportunity." |
| "Success is an Attitude." |
| "One can never consent to creep, when one feels an impulse to soar." Helen Keller |
| "People that are miserable in their personal life will take it out on others." |
| "If you feel and think you can do something you'll find a way to do it, if you think and feel you can't then you won't." |
| "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well." Aristotle |
| “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” Lou Holtz |
| "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." Robert Capa |
| "The best search engine is a reference librarian." |
| "Sometimes an old belt will look better than a new belt." Banana Republic Sales Person |
| “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. Your need to start somewhere, start by getting something , anything, down on paper.” Anne Lamott |
| "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges |
| "Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch." Ivern Ball |
| "Good writing is in the details." |
| Dreams Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughs |
| "Our family isn't like those perfect, ideal families you read about. Our family is real...Real noisy....Real confused...Real crazy." |
| "The fundamental weakness that ruins so many people's lives is procrastination." |
| "See possibilities where others see only problems or impossibilities. Stretch your imagination. The world is full of infinite possibilities!" |
| "Success is dedication to the idea that if you truly understand how something works, you will be better at it." Mia Hamm |
| "The greatest barrier to success is yourself." |
| "We have to learn how to make right decisions more often than wrong ones." |
| "There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself." Stephen C. Lundin |
| "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll know what lures to use." |
| "Great skills will give you confidence and confidence breeds creativity. Once you feel free to be inventive, you will try new things and constantly test yourself and that is when you really improve." Mia Hamm |
| "Be persistent. The only real failure is giving up." |
| “Simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation.” Raymond Loewy |
| "There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself." Stephen Lundin |
| "If your bored it's your fault." |
| "Luck occurs when preparation meets opportunity." |
| “The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.” Dennis S. Brown |
| "Repetitions will strengthen the mind." |
| "No one succeeds without strength of character." |
| "A very important aspect of successful people is that they all had failures, sometimes many failures." |
| "What you say, reflects who you are. Who do you want to be?" |
| "Don't take anything personally!" |
| “I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life’s endeavors. Your attitude, your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people – determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.” -Caroline Warner |
| “When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.” Deciderius Erasmus |
| "Understanding is one thing, action is another." |
| "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, genius will not, education will not." |
| "Recent research shows that the unconscious mind is more important than many had believed. Because stories influence us both consciously and unconsciously, they hold particular power." |
| "Character equals destiny." Heraclitus - the Greek philosopher |
| "Successful people are ruled by passion and their hearts." |
| "People that are miserable in their personal lives will take it out on others." |
| "We can choose the attitude we bring to our work." Stephen Lundin |
| "We often think that being loved is the best feeling in the world, but it's the second best. The best is loving someone else." Dean Baker Ph.D. |
| "Be affirmative, brief and clear." Eric Maisel |
| "Ten minutes a day and you will see results - I wish someone told me that ten years ago!" |
| “Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” Goethe |
| "Studies are always open to criticism and their results to interpretation." |
| "If we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves." |
| "Ten minutes a day and you will see results - I wish someone told me that ten years ago!" |
| "Studies are always open to criticism and their results to interpretation." |
| "People are unique as snowflakes. They come in different sizes and shapes, have different metabolisms, like and dislike tastes and textures. So no single formula can apply to everyone." |
| "Don't make assumptions, find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama." |
| "What you say reflects who you are. Who do you want to be?" |
| "Bad news becomes worse news if you keep it a secret." Eric Maisel |
| "Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you." |
| “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” Colin Powell |
| “Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.” Norman Vicent Reale |
| “Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambitions. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.” Herbert Kaufman |
| “Failure is simple the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” Henry Ford |
| “You are the same today that you are going to be in five yours from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.” Charles Jones |
| “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| “Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.” Goethe |
| “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby |
| “There are moments when one is seized by an idea springing from so deep within that all concern for logistics and reality seems to dissolve. Some have the courage to acknowledge such ideas and perhaps even articulate them, while few have courage to act upon them and allow them to unfold.” Robert E. Fulton, Jr. |
| “All of us have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer,
philosopher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all of these
simultaneously. Few are permitted
to achieve any one of |
| “We write what we don’t know. The more answers I have when I begin, the worse the writing goes. If I set out to really write a story that I have in mind in total, it never comes together. But if I have a little fragment and I’m genuinely curious about it and then if it takes root in my imagination, it’ll go.” Andre Dubusiii |
| “A lack of control. There is a big difference between being a control freak and wanting order.” Ed Marquand |
| “Don’t say when it’s too late – I didn’t think this could happen to me, I never thought it would turn out this way! Think first! If in doubt, don’t do it! It isn’t worth the risk." |
| “To feel better, learn to take better care of yourself, when you feel better, you look better.” Ed Marquand |
| Excerpt from Mildred D. Taylor’s novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. “They’ve got to learn how things are sometime.” “Maybe so,” said Mama, “but that doesn’t mean they have to accept them….” (30). |
| “Research that follows people over a considerable period of time is expensive and therefore relatively rare, but its findings are far more powerful than those from short-term studies.” |
| “He who angers you conquers you.” |
| “Three important Factors in a study, research – 1. How the relevant terms are defined, 2. How the experiment was set up, 3. What the researchers were looking for.” |
| “Good writing is in the details.” |
| “If your are the best in your field, money will find you.” The Millionaire Next Door |
| “Everyday you wake up, you should have a goal.” |
| “Big hat, no cattle.” The Millionaire Next Door |
| On why we read – “The truth is, until you go through something yourself, you never really know what the experience will be like. But, it sure helps to hear the stories of those who have traveled the same road.” Barbara Paulsen |
| “Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.” |
| “Don’t tiptoe into show business, jump into show business.” -Mel Brooks |
| “Keep it simple, it doesn't have to be complicated.” Tony Napoleone |
| “The wonderful thing about a library is that I can have a conversation with Plato, with Shakespeare, with Walt Whitman….” Yo Yo Ma – Musician |
| “The habit of action – this, I think is the most important thing we must acquire.” |
| On why we read – “The truth is, until you go through something yourself, you never really know what the experience will be like. But, it sure helps to hear the stories of those who have traveled the same road.” Barbara Paulsen |
| “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living will.” Aristotle |
| “There is no merit in just thinking about doing something. The result is exactly the same as not thinking about it. It is only doing the thing that counts.” |
| “Life is about problem solving.” |
| “The first rule in the art of seeing was that one must see not only with the eyes, but with the imagination.” Twilight – Henry Grunwald |
| “Happiness sneaks through a door you didn’t know you left open.” –John Barrymore |
| “Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Norman MacEwan |
| “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Waynne Gretzky |
| “Most people wait around to be inspired, I say go out and find it!” |
| “It takes everyone in the classroom to make it successful, it only takes one person to ruin it.” |
| “You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watching and love like it’s never going to hurt.” |
| "You have to have confidence in your ability and then be tough enough to follow through." Rosalyn Carter |
| "Your mind, body and spirit work in concert to make you happy." Dean Baker |
| "Let the radiance of my enthusiasm envelop all those I cross." |
| "None of us is as smart as all of
us." |
| "You have to go after what you want. I've never waited by the phone for a job, a man, anything. Make it happen." |
| "Happiness is not a destination, but a daily way of life." |
| "Learning is Curiosity." |
| "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso |
| "If you hit a brick wall, look for a way to climb over it, get through it or go another route. You might find something better than what you originally wanted. Sometimes the closed doors open ones that you never anticipated, because being tested is a very important part of success." Kay Bailey Hutchison |
| "To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything." Anatole France Thibault |
| "When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." Albert Einstein |
| "Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at." |
| "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy |
| "There's no doubt the group mind can be far more intelligent than the individual; the scientific data on this point is overwhelming." Daniel Goleman |
| "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "People are capable, at any time in their lives of doing what they dream of." Paulo Coelho |
| "Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none." Lois Lowry from the book Gathering Blue |
| "The most important message that the science of happiness tells us about money is that , almost nobody thinks they have enough." Dean Baker |
| "Those who reflect on their own thinking and learning performance and use that self- knowledge to alter their processing are more likely to show significant academic growth than those who do not." p.g. 31 How Students Learn |
| "To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching." Henri-Frederic Amiel |
| "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." Carl Rogers |
| "I am not intimated by anyone." ~ mother who lost her son in the September 11 Attacks and wants justice |
| "Love is Life. All everything
that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything
is, everything exists, only because I love." ~ Leo Tolstoy War and Peace |
| "When one demonstrates their strength
they reveal their weakness." ~ Scott Blumenfeld |