Quotes of Note
Shared at the June 2014 Faculty Retreat
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“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” – To Kill a Mockingbird
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
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“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
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“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.” – Hippocrates
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“Dare to be true.”
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“To sense the client’s world as if it were your own, but without ever losing the ‘as if’ quality – this is
empathy.” – Carl Rogers
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“When you die and go to heaven and meet your Maker, your Maker is not going to ask you why
didn't you discover the cure for such and such? Why weren't you a leader? Why weren't you
successful? Why didn't you become more? The only question that will be asked of you is ‘why didn't
you become you?’”
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“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a
series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far
as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.” –
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver
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“Dare to dream, change, lead, and act.”
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I speak my mind with all of my heart.”
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“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
Quotes of Note
Shared at the June 2014 Faculty Retreat (cont.)
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that
you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with
joy.” – Kahlil Gibran
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“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to
encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come
out of it.”
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“Self-worth has nothing to do with what the world might say.”
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“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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“In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of
thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.”
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“Whatever you choose to do, choose a career that you can be authentically passionate about,
something that’s an extension of who you really are.” – Bert Jacobs, Life is Good
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“Nothing about me without me.”
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“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the
consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being
observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it, or my observation
of it, is temporary?” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
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“Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We
don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing
time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth
remembering.” – Rachel Naomi Remen
Quotes of Note
Shared at the June 2014 Faculty Retreat (cont.)
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“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the
most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more
power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.” – Rachel Naomi Remen
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“There is no love; there is only proof of love.”
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“Listen with ears of tolerance. See through the eyes of compassion. Speak with the language of love.”
– Rumi
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“If you don’t believe it, it won’t come out your horn.” – Charlie Parker