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The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
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What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness
with which one must look and listen,
record in astonishment
and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
- Margaret Mead
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Today's problems can seldom be solved using yesterday's answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Problems cannot be solved at the same level
of awareness that created them.
- Albert Einstein
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Walking is good for solving problems -
it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.
- Pepper Giardino
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
- Max Lucado
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Whatever happened, forgive others, forgive yourself,
move forward, live for today and tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard
You cannot escape the responsibility
of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln
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