Evan > Evan's Quotes

“God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.”
― Mother Teresa

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

After that I liked jazz music.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“There is no communication in this world except between equals.”
― Ken Burns

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Yale students were the first American students to organize a boycott against British-made goods, and when Hale was entering, the graduating class voted almost unanimously to appear “wholly dressed in the manufactures of our own country” at their commencement ceremony.”
― Alexander Rose, Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay”
― Sylvia Libow Martinez, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

“Electronics is central to our lives but disappeared from our consciousness.”
― Sylvia Libow Martinez, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

“Too many times within the constraints of school students are taught that there is only one correct answer, or perhaps that there isn’t enough time to really explore many other possibilities. It is crucial to learning to have space for invention and innovation.”
― Sylvia Libow Martinez, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

“I don’t care if you teach for the next twenty years; just don’t teach one year twenty times.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Our universities need to reward risk takers and innovators over grade chasers.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“the qualities Google looks for in an employee. Without hesitation most of them identified creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation as the top three traits.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“pursuing anything valuable or important means you have to be willing to fail.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“the AUP is the only communication from school to home about the vision of technology use, and yet, it’s a negative document, full of complex legalese and threats of punishment. If that’s the only message parents get from your school about technology, you are missing an opportunity to set the bar high and share your vision.”
― Sylvia Libow Martinez, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

“What can my students do instead of me doing it? How can my students be agents of change rather than objects of change?”
― Sylvia Libow Martinez, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

“provide them with experiences to grow by collaborating, creating a culture of positive failure, and allowing them the freedom to research and pursue what is important to them.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“When you lead with rules and regulations on the first day, you set a culture of limitations.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Leaders should create more leaders, plain and simple. Great leaders do not lead a bunch of followers; rather, they lead to enable more responsibility and trust within the group.”
― Don Wettrick, Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“It is impossible to teach 21st century learners if you have not learned this century. — Gary Stager”
― Sylvia Libow Martinez, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

“Like all learners, an educator is not a vessel to be filled, but a lamp to be lit.”
― Sylvia Libow Martinez, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. — Dr. Seuss”
― Sylvia Libow Martinez, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

“we find only the world we look for.”
― Kevin Dann, Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau