Emotional intelligence is a master aptitude, a capacity that

profoundly affects all other abilities,either facilitating or

interfering with them

Daniel Goleman

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Failing is not falling flat on your face, its not getting up

Steve Cowley

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters

compared to what lies within us – and when we bring what is

within us out into the world, miracles happen

Henry Thoreau

No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent

Eleanor Roosevelt

To learn anything fast and effectively you need to see it,

hear it, and feel it

Tony Stockwell

I have not failed 10,000 times, I have successfully found 10,000

ways that don’t work

Thomas Edison

Whether you believe you can or you can’t, you are probably right

Henry Ford

Spoon feeding may improve results but it doesn’t improve

the chewing muscles

Guy Claxton

To be successful we must stop concentrating on the end

product of learning and look at the process

Daniel Goleman

Learning accelerates when the whole brain gets involved

Dave Meier

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be lighted

Plutarch