Mr. Cuttic

Communications 7,

PSSA Review 7,

Horror and Fantasy

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Research Paper Web sites

Use this website to access your school files at home:

http://www.mca.k12.pa.us/technology/filemanager/

1. Reference web sites:

History.com

Bio.com

Encyclopedia Britannica

KidsClick!

The Internet Public Library for Kids

Infoplease.com Encyclopedia

POWER Library (very good place to start, especially "Facts for Learning")

2. Research Paper Format:

http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/thesis.html

http://aaweb.gallaudet.edu/CLAST/Tutorial_and_Instructional_Programs/English_Works/Writing/Research_Papers_Citations_and_Reference.html#mla

3. Web sites for creating your works cited page:

Citation Machine

The OWL at Purdue

Bedford St. Martin's citation help

Here are some sample PowerPoints for you to observe for when you create yours. Remember: we don't have much time in the computer lab., so you'll need to attend tutoring/homework club to get extra time if needed. (all students or their parents gave me permission to use these)

Sample 1

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Sample 5

I've also included a sample research paper for you to use as a guide:

Sample Research Paper(with permission; my notations are in orange)

Horror and Fantasy: Make-up Assignment

You all know that for your first miss you need to send me a link to some sort of website or article that would meet the description of our class. For your second and any subsequent misses, you have an alternative assignment, which can be read below or viewed directly in MS Word by clicking the link.

Keep in mind that all make-up assignments are optional but strongly encouraged to ensure that you do well in my class.

Link: Make-Up Assignment

Horror and Fantasy: Make-Up Assignment

Directions:

You will need to type me an analytical response paper about a horror/fantasy movie that you have recently seen.  Your response should include no more than one paragraph of a summary; the rest of the essay needs to be your review of the movie. What did you think? Why did you/didn't you like it? What made the movie that good/poor/average? What grade rating would you give it?

Your review must meet the following formatting criteria:

• No less than one and one-half pages long yet no longer than three
  pages long
• Double-spaced
• One-inch margins
• Font needs to be in style Times New Roman, size 12

In the top-left corner, type the following:

Your Name

Mr. Cuttic

Horror and Fantasy Make-up Assignment for ________  (insert the date you were absent)

Days 1, 3, 5 Period 1

                                 Review of movie ___________    (insert movie name; italicize it)

 
Additional Points:

• This assignment is due the very next class after your return.
• Do NOT give me someone else’s review. Besides from being plagiarism, I want YOUR thoughts. Be honest and creative.
• Keep it appropriate.
• Finally, while I’m not scoring this essay for conventions and style, please use good writing skills.

General Computer Help

• Many of you have asked me to look at an essay for you. Use this document to learn how to send an email attachment using Horde (school email) and this one for MSN Hotmail/Yahoo!Mail so I can look at your essay at home.

• Downloading and Uploading Files
  
  
  
  • Have you ever arrived home to work on an essay or project just to discover you forgot to save your file to a portable disk? Perhaps you forgot (or you don’t know how) to email it home. Well, these instructions will help you to access your files. I have also provided you with directions on how to get a home-completed project to school.

*Hint: A good piece of software to obtain is a USB drive, also called a “jump” or “thumb” drive. Depending on their size, they can hold massive amounts of information. Plus, they’re pocket-friendly. You can even get a lanyard for them.

Something to Think About...

Subject: My mom wont let me write my own college essays

By the time my mom finished "editing" my Harvard essay, nothing of what I wrote was left. I knew it was a terrible essay, but I submitted it anyway rather than fight her. Unsurprisingly, I was waitlisted and then rejected. I am convinced that the horrible, stilted, lifeless essay did me in.

Later I applied for a prestigious full-ride scholarship and hid the paperwork at school so that I could write my own essay. I won that scholarship, and two degrees and $120,000 later, I'm a debt-free Fulbright grantee living in a foreign country.

Moral of the story: love your mother, but write your own college essays. Being rejected for who you are is so much better than being accepted for who you aren't.

-Author unkown

Though this is geared toward college-level students, I believe it can be related to students in high school as well.

Two Wolves

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a
battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two
"wolves" inside us all.
 
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy,sorrow, regret,
greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false
pride, superiority, and ego.
  
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
 
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:
"Which wolf wins?"
 

The old Cherokee simply replied,
"The one you feed."

Quotations

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide
your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your
mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you
control your own destiny."

-- Albert Ellis

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the
chess player, not the chess piece."

-- Ralph Charell

"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You
can't have two sets of manners, two social codes -- one for
those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom
you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people."

-- Lillian Eichler Watson

"Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an
attack of soul-purging truth coming on."

-- Betty White

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's
already tomorrow in Australia."

-- Charles Schulz

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel
that crushed it."

-- Mark Twain

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck."

-- Dalai Lama

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and
one-upping, always makes you less than you are."

-- Malcolm Forbes

"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your
thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a
goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement
and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness,
and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to
success."

-- Brian Adams

"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine
out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."

-- Madame de Tencin

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is
the natural consequence of consistently applying the
basic fundamentals."

-- Jim Rohn

"This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it
makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst
thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head
high because then you'll start to feel better. If
you're going to get any joy out of being depressed,
you've got to stand like this."

-- Charlie Brown

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And
all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are
fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we
do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

-- John Steinbeck

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
Autograph your work with excellence."

-- Jessica Guidobono

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful
what we pretend to be."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious,
you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on
to someone else."

-- Mitch Albom

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the
right paths, but the final forming of a person's
character lies in their own hands."

-- Anne Frank

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not
your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so
does a hard-boiled egg."

-- Anonymous

"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to
displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to
temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."

-- William J.H. Boetcker

"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us,
we can control what happens inside us."

-- Benjamin Franklin

"What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make
mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other
mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly
can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what
do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same
as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for
there is no other way of learning how to live!"

-- Alfred Adler

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold
two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain
the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to
see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make
them otherwise."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in
complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for
change is the essence of life."

-- Anatole France

"The past does not define you, the present does."

-- Jillian Michaels

"That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to
see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from
the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the
terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep
breath and begin climbing again."

-- Michael Johnson

"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense
muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth.
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in
your life."

-- Joan Lunden

"When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn
back against your future. When you do forgive, you start
walking forward."

-- Tyler Perry

"First we make our habits, then our habits make us."

-- Charles C. Noble

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish
for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less
challenges, wish for more wisdom."

-- Earl Shoaf

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.
There are too many people who think that the only thing that's
right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get
caught."

-- J.C. Watts

"Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual
doing of it... We become just by doing just acts, temperate
by doing temperate ones, brave by doing brave ones."

-- Aristotle

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must
have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We
must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this
thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

-- Madam Marie Curie

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to
notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer
thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."

-- Garrison Keillor

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are
willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try
something new."

-- Brian Tracy

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too
serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we
are doing every day, only in a different way."

-- Will Rogers

"How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing
what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that
not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a
high morality and true freedom."

-- Karl Rahner

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can
start today and make a new ending."

-- Maria Robinson

"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night
the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

-- William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3, lines 7880)

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

-- William Shakespeare (Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, lines 75–77)

"After a time, you may find that 'having' is not so pleasing a
thing, after all, as 'wanting.' It is not logical, but it is
often true."

-- Mr. Spock, Star Trek

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and
small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from
drying out completely."

-- Pam Brown

"How long should you try? Until."

-- Jim Rohn

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right,
he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

-- Charles Wadsworth

"Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken
word; the lost opportunity."

-- Willam George Plunkett

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it
ain't goin' away."

-- Elvis Presley

"What we do during our working hours determines what we have;
what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."

-- George Eastman

Square your shoulders to the world, be not the kind to quit.
It's not the load that weighs you down but the way you carry
it."

-- Anonymous

"Every path hath a puddle."

-- George Herbert

"It is infinitely more exciting to live a life of catastrophic
failures than a life of could-haves, should-haves and
would-haves."

-- M.H Meng

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm
terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient
reason for remaining ashore."

-- Vincent Van Gogh

"It is the responsibility of every adult to make sure that
children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life
and to hear over and over that we love them."

-- Marian W. Edelman

"We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded but
never stop reaching heavenward."

-- Everett Mamor

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if
he knew he would never be found out."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

"Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message.
The information it has about our life can be remarkably
specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We
would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be
more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's
message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away."

-- Peter McWilliams

Just because you make a mistake doesn't mean you are a
mistake."

-- Georgette Mosbacher

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will
vibrate in eternity."

-- Sean O'Casey

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a
could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be
a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-
have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."

-- Milton Berle

"Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather
than as a feeling."

-- Stephen R. Covey

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most
of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult
act of heroism you can perform."

-- Theodore H. White

"Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow
up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large
tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. In a pond koi
can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed
in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is
obvious. You are limited by how you see the world."

-- Vince Poscente

"May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or
shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have
and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it,
for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be
happy without the things we cannot or should not have."

-- Richard L. Evans

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."

-- John Mason

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up
with the rain."

-- Dolly Parton

"All of us every single year, we're a different person. I
don't think we're the same person all our lives."

-- Steven Spielberg

"If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that
money can't buy."

-- Unknown

"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that
we don't take time to enjoy where we are."

-- From Calvin & Hobbes

"Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that
life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how
painful your situation might be, you can survive it."

-- Bill Cosby

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you
believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you
think."

-- From A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh

"There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.'

-- Anonymous

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture
of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously.
Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the
picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive
experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success,
inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek
earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience
points out some form of error which we shall afterwards
carefully avoid."

-- John Keats

"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly
be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have
kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once
extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it
again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be
what you desire to appear."

-- Socrates

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful
lest you let other people spend it for you."

-- Carl Sandburg

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you
help them to become what they are capable of being."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to
beat him at politeness."

-- Josh Billings

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people
who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't
fight back."

-- Abigail Van Buren

"Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that
the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the
big one done; it's downhill from then on."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same
time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends
all barriers."

-- Ed Sullivan

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain
nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice
being brave."

-- Mary Tyler Moore

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this
day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good.
What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day
of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone
forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...
let it be something good." 

-- Author Unknown

"If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be
like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second.
If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on
Mars. We'd both be unique."

-- Mark Spitz

"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do
the same thing; only at different times."

-- Baltasar Gracian

"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for
yourself."

-- Harriet Nelson

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be
perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less
than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each
step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and
more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more
successful."

-- Mark Victor Hansen

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy
than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our
misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

-- Voltaire

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."

-- James Dean

"It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected."

-- Voltaire

"Every day is a new day of learning. We can excel and exceed
our own standards by consistently upgrading our outlook and
attitude towards those around us. Our position, our power, our
status... nothing is permanent. What will remain in fond
memories of those around us is not the altitude of our
achievements, but our attitude, acts of kindness, and
consideration towards others."

-- CV Varghese

"Smooth roads never make good drivers. Smooth seas never make
good sailors. Clear skies never make good pilots. A problem
free life never makes a strong and good person. Have a tough
but winning day ahead! Be strong enough to accept the
challenges of life. Do not ask life, 'Why me?' instead say,
'Try me'."

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in
our own sunshine."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about
yesterday all the time."

-- Charles F. Kettering

"Ability is what you're capable of, motivation determines what
you do, attitude determines how well you do it."

-- Lou Holtz

"Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You
only need to find one good reason why it will."

-- Dr. Robert Anthony

"Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of
the way things turn out."

-- John Wooden

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about
life: it goes on."

--Robert Frost

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about
yesterday all the time."

-- Charles F. Kettering

"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something
for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten
another's pain, life is not in vain."

-- Helen Keller

"You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front
line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the
back room. If you want the cooperation of human beings around
you, make them feel that they are important. And you do that by
being humble."

-- Nelson Mandela

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

-- General George S. Patton

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all
that you want."

-- Jim Rohn, American business philosopher, motivational counselor, businessman, and bestselling author

"Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it."

-- Old Postcard

"Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of
misfortune or temporary defeat."

-- Napoleon Hill

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."

-- Jack Welch

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life is: could have, might have, and
should have."

-- Louis E. Boone

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we
look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one
which has been opened for us."

-- Helen Keller

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall,
don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go
through it, or work around it."

-- Michael Jordan

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make
you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the
truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the
magic keys to living your life with integrity."

-- W. Clement Stone

"There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you
want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind
has achieved the second."

-- Logan Pearsall Smith

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we
look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one
which has been opened for us."

-- Helen Keller

"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on
the work before you, well assured that the right performance
of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the
hours or ages that follow it."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Being considerate of others will take you further in life
than a college degree."

-- Marian Wright Edelman

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be
kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind."

-- Henry James

"Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test
first, the lesson afterwards."

-- Vernon Saunders' Law

"It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make
the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing
around you are being your most effective and efficient self.
Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out
for thought."

-- Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone

"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

-- Robert Quillen

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious
gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled
sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the
roughest weather."

-- Washington Irving, American Author

"The things that hurt us teach us."

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

"If you learn from your suffering, and really come to
understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to
help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just
completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all..."

-- Anonymous

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One
is roots. The other is wings."

-- Hodding Carter, Jr.

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you
could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget
them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well
and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with
your old nonsense."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung,
one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high
but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're
progressing until you step back and see how high you've really
gone."

-- Donny Osmond

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a
second-rate version of somebody else."

-- Judy Garland

-Thomas J. Watson, IBM

"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the
reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward.
Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power."

-- Phyllis Bottome

"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they
could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the
thought that things are so bad that they have to get better."

-- Malcolm Forbes

"This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with
its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the
yesterdays."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see
things in the soft haze of a spring day, or in the red fire of
a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams
die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through
the bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light
which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their
dreams will come true."

-- Woodrow Wilson

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve
success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the
last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."

-- H. Ross Perot

"Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come
smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you
keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true."

-- Cinderella

"If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and
unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was
developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of
their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the river of
greatness is always the stream of adversity."

-- Cavett Robert

"Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because
if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow!"

-- James A .Michener

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the
same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller,
Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

-- H. Jackson Brown

"You will achieve a grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals
for each day -- not long and difficult projects, but chores
that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write
them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't
have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember
that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be
patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you
neglect your most important goal -- to do the best you can,
enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have
accomplished."

-- Og Mandino

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent
people and the affection of children; to earn the
appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of
false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in
others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a
healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social
condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because
you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs
and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking
you with a sharp stick called 'truth'."

-- Dan Rather

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes
are truly endless."

-- Mother Teresa

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop
your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to
surrender, that is strength."

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung,
one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high
but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're
progressing until you step back and see how high you've really
gone."

-- Donny Osmond

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what
you get."

-- Dale Carnegie

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one
has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome
while trying to succeed."

-- Booker T. Washington

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our
worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of
serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we
changed."

-- Earl Nightingale

"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of
possibilities become images of probabilities."

-- Vic Braden, American Tennis Coach

"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of
stumbling blocks."

-- Jack Penn

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts
of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of
thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the
roughest weather."

-- Washington Irving

"Energy and persistence alter all things."

-- Benjamin Franklin

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning
                                                -Anthony Trollope, English novelist

Some people will believe anyhting if you whisper it to them.

-Louis Nizer , American trial lawyer

"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even
though the world may write him down a failure."

-- B. C. Forbes

"He knows a hero when he sees one. Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams."

---Mae Parker in Spider-man 2

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in
order to look at things in a different way."

-- Edward De Bono, British Writer

"Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set
realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do
because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and
you shouldn't."

-- George Lucas

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

-- Confucius

"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to
fail."

-- Edwin H. Land, American Scientist

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt
the person doing it."

"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are
fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal
we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time
off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life
so wonderful, so worthwhile."

-- Earl Nightingale

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you
are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are
helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful
to you. The world is what you are."

-- Thomas Dreier, Author

"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial
and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real
challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as
work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You
are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have
the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in
your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success.
Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!"

-- Og Mandino, Author

"Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own
estimate."

-- Source Unknown


"Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being.
You're a perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person
simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or
tribulations can ever change that. Unconditional self
acceptance is the core of a peaceful mind."

-- St. Francis de Sales, Patron Saint of Journalists

"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost
300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning
shot... and missed. I've failed over and over and over again
in my life. And that is why I succeed."

-- Michael Jordan

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds."

-- Grenville Kleiser, Writer

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just
one more time."

-- Thomas Edison

"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no
reasons are necessary."

"People of character do the right thing, not because they
think it will change the world but because they refuse to be
changed by the world."

"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only
have control over what you do."

-- A. J. Kitt

"Start small; think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; invest all you have in your dream; visualize

miracles; expect to experience success."

-- Rev. Robert H Schuller

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."

-- Jennie Jerome Churchill, Mother of Winston Churchill

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change
it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

-- Maya Angelou

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you,
no matter what your task may be."

-- Og Mandino, Author

"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they
are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them
rather now instead."

-- Anna Cummins, Poet

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

-- Robert Service

"The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a
manner consistent with our self-image."

-- Brian Tracy, Speaker and Author

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding
success because they don't know when to quit. Most people
succeed because they are determined to."

-- George E. Allen, Publisher and Author

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great
surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

-- Henry Ford

If you are out to describe truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
-- Albert Einstein

"Listening is a high art of loving. Ask yourself, 'When was the last time I really listened to my child? my parent? my brother or sister?’ When someone is ready to share, three magic words amplify your connection, and they are: 'Tell me more.'"
-- Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against
you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute
longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and
time that the tide will turn."

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe,Writer and Abolitionist

"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"

-- Rob Bremer, Speaker

"The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large."
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw, Humorist"

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

-- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
-- John Quincy Adams

"One of the hardest things in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn."

"It is a very funny thing about life - if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

-- W. Somerset Maugham, Author

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful
lest you let other people spend it for you."

-- Carl Sandburg