Lisa Durff > Lisa's Quotes

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
― Alvin Toffler

“For educators, not providing a global context for your students in today’s world is almost criminal.”
― Ben Green, The Global Superstar: How Your Students Can Develop An Advantage Over Global Competition

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”
― Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“Innovation is now recognized as the single most important ingredient in any modern economy.”
― Tom Kelley, The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Grace Bonney, In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

“Winners are losers who got back up.”
― Grace Bonney, In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

“Success occurs when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Grace Bonney, In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

“You have to stretch to grow. And surround yourself with not only talented people whom you can delegate to, but also with good souls. Without grace and kindness, your skills are unimportant to me.”
― Grace Bonney, In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

“Blue ocean shift is a systematic process to move your organization from cutthroat markets with bloody competition—what we think of as red oceans full of sharks—to wide-open blue oceans, or new markets devoid of competition, in a way that brings your people along.”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth

“blue ocean strategy is a theory of market creation”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth

“If you can move people by inspiring and building their confidence to own and drive your new strategy, they will be committed to seeing change through and overcoming the organizational constraints you confront.”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth

“tilted his head when listening, giving everyone he spoke to the impression of his undivided attention.”
― Mina Baites, The Silver Music Box

“One is not born a woman, one becomes one. —Simone de Beauvoir, A WOMAN’S JOURNAL”
― Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

“I’m learning that what’s important is not so much what I do to make a living as who I become in the process.”
― Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

“are as malleable as the mermaid in the sand—unfinished men and women making new creations out of our old selves.”
― Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

“The way to keep your senses alive is to use them.”
― Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

“nourishment I feel can only be maintained if I stay close to the elements—fire, air, water, earth. If I surround myself with them, I shall always feel the stirrings of my soul.”
― Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Did the International Committee of the Red Cross know anything about this? Did the United States? The UN? Yes, yes, and yes. And what did they do”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

“Researchers, led by Dr. Suniya Luthar of Columbia University’s Teachers College, have found that America has a new group of “at-risk” kids, or, more accurately, a previously unrecognized and unstudied group of at-risk kids. They defy the stereotypes commonly associated with the term “at-risk.” They are not inner-city kids growing up in harsh and unforgiving circumstances. They do not have empty refrigerators in their kitchens, roaches in their homes, metal detectors in their schools, or killings in their neighborhoods. America’s newly identified at-risk group is preteens and teens from affluent, well-educated families. In spite of their economic and social”
― Madeline Levine, The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

“advantages, they experience among the highest rates of depression, substance abuse, anxiety disorders, somatic complaints, and unhappiness of any group of children in this country.2”
― Madeline Levine, The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

“The money you make here will disappear, but your education will always stay with you.”
― Wade Keller, Aspire toward the Highest

“an educational institution that devoted itself to positive social change,”
― Wade Keller, Aspire toward the Highest

“education could be used as a social force.”
― Wade Keller, Aspire toward the Highest

“change the face of higher education in America.”
― Wade Keller, Aspire toward the Highest

“Walden University is on the cutting edge of change.”
― Wade Keller, Aspire toward the Highest

“What an amazing breath of fresh air Walden brought to the stuffy academic world!”
― Wade Keller, Aspire toward the Highest

“It is now clear, however, that children of privilege are exhibiting unexpectedly high rates of emotional problems beginning in junior high school and accelerating throughout adolescence.”
― Madeline Levine, The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids