Cynematik • Cyndi Greening

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
U.S. Diplomat, Reformer & Former First Lady

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
U.S. Diplomat, Reformer & Former First Lady

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
U.S. Diplomat, Reformer & Former First Lady

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“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.”
      Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
      US Poet

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
      Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
      in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
      Greek Philosopher

“Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.”
      Wally “Famous” Amos (1936 - )
      U.S. Businessman

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“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
      Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
      US art collector, author, & publisher

“Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
      Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
      French Novelist

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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God doesn’t require us to succeed; He only requires that you try.
— Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

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“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.”
      Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

“We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.”
      Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

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“Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
      Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
      Rabbinical Saying

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“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

“The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.”

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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
— Immanuel Kant (German Philosopher; 1724 - 1804)

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“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” U.S. Author (1934 - )

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“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”

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By learning you will teach;
by teaching you will learn.”

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Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by “learning” we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

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“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
— Frank Herbert (U.S. Science Fiction Author; 1920 - 1986)

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“Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.”
— Socrates (Greek Philosopher; 469 BC - 399 BC)

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