Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 10/31/08

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.

You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

     - Oh, the Places You'll Go!  -  Dr. Seuss

Theodore Seuss Geisel, Born 1904

Source: Cat in the Hat(.org)

Avenues to Success for 10/30/08

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touch-starved.
     - Diane Ackerman, Born 1948, American author, poet and naturalist 

Source: Diane Ackerman Home Page

Avenues to Success for 10/29/08

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
     - Grenville Kleiser, 1868-1953, American author

A short Biography - Notable Kleisers (Blog)

Works by or about Grenville Kleiser in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser - Free e-Book from ManyBooks.net

Subtitle: A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and the Improvement of the Vocabulary of those Persons who Read, Write, and Speak English

This is the Avenue to Success for 10/29/08

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Avenues to Success for 10/28/08

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness, not to be a mere rushing on.

     - D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, English writer

Source: D.H. Lawrence Page

Here's some more D.H. Lawrence links of interest:

Avenues to Success for 10/27/08

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your ignorance.

     - Thomas Sowell, Born 1930, American economist, social commentator, author

Source: Thomas Sowell Home Page

Continue to learn more about Thomas Sowell:

Avenues to Success for 10/26/08

Life is worth being lived,
but not worth being discussed all the time.

    
     - Isabelle Adfani, Born 1955, French film actress and singer

Source: Isabelle Adjani Home Page

This is the Avenue to Success for 10/26/08

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Avenues to Success for 10/25/08

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
     - Unknown

Photo by kashykashu on Flickr

This is the Avenue to Success for 10/25/08

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Avenues to Success for 10/24/08

Nature gave man two ends - one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success has been dependent of the one he used the most.

     - George R. Kirkpatrick

From what I can find, he was an author of political books, was a delegate to the 1932 Socialist Party Convention, 

This is the Avenue to Success for 10/24/08

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Avenues to Success for 10/23/08

You cannot demand to lead and then say that you are not responsible when things do not work out. You cannot accept only the rewards and duck the bad consequences of your actions.
     - Nicolas Sarkozy, Born 1955, Current French President

Photo attributed to Jean-Louise Aubert

Source: Wikipedia

According to Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland, in his September 28, 2008 column, A World of Risk Beyond Wall Street, Nicolas Sarkozy used today's quoted during a black tie dinner at which he received the U.N. Humanitarian Award. Jim notes: "He spoke in a hotel ballroom filled with Wall Street financiers who underwrote the gala - but his words seemed aimed not only at them but also Bush, Congress and ultimately the American Nation."

This is the Avenue to Success for 10/24/08

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A case for a honor code in our schools ...

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Maura J. Casey, New York Times editorial writer, in her October 13, 2008 column, Digging Out Roots of Cheating in High School, confirms our suspicions that cheating in colleges has increased dramatically since the 1960s. So much so, that it has become  "the acceptable status quo."

She points to studies that suggest it starts in high school and actually becomes part of secondary educations culture. She cites Dr. Jason Stephens', the University of Connecticut, description of  cheating as "'a corrosive force' - especially when it is acquired in the early years of moral development." The influence at home does not determine the inclination to cheat, but peer norms at school do. "And, schools, themselves are complicit, because they rewards high grades more than the process of learning - while turning a blind eye to cheating."

A case for a honor code in our schools ... Casey writes that a follow-up study shows a decrease in dishonest behavior "among employees who had attended schools with an honor code and whose workplace encourages ethical behavior."

 Click here to read Digging Out Roots of Cheating in High School.

Image: by Frank Cammuso/ The Post-Standard, Source: Syracuse Post Standard F-M Cheating Scandal - What Do You Think?