Reflective Practice – Tom Hanks

“Life is like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’re gonna get.” Tom Hanks from the movie “Forest Gump”

Reflective Practice – Isaac Watts

“Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.” Isaac Watts

Reflective Practice – Liberty Hyde Bailey

“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” Liberty Hyde Bailey

Reflective Practice – Will Rogers

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949

Reflective Practice – Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear…It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” Mark Twain

Reflective Practice – Charles Spurgeon

“It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.” ~ Charles Spurgeon

Reflective Practice – Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things – Niccolo Machiavelli

“Great is Thy faithfulness,” O God my Father,
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.” – Thomas Obadiah Chisolm (1866-1960)

Reflective Practice – Steve Jobs

“That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” Steve Jobs

Reflective Practice – Emile Chartier

‘Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one we have.’ Emile Chartier