Quotes About Reflection

To grow old is to grow remorseful.

Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

You don't beat the grim reaper by living longer; you beat the grim reaper by living better.

Apologies are not pass/fail.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse?

I'm dying and I'm having fun.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

In the fifty years my parents were married, in the thousands of conversations my dad had with me, it had just never come up. And so there I was, weeks after his death, getting another lesson from him about the meaning of sacrifice—and about the power of humility

We didn't buy much, but we thought about everything.

La experiencia es lo que te queda cuando no consigues lo que querías.

Time is all you have. And you may find one day thar you have less than you think

El que ha fracasado sabe cómo evitar futuros fracasos.

I've often carried a crayon in my shirt pocket. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and I take another hit.

Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think

This student's eyes widened. "I admit it," I told him. "I'm a recovering jerk. And that gives me the moral authority to tell you that you can be a recovering jerk, too." For

Time is all you have, and you might find one day you have less than what you think

In the end, educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse? Some

Lucky" is a strange word to use to describe my situation, but a part of me does feel fortunate that I didn't get hit by the proverbial bus. Cancer has given me the time to have these vital conversations with Jai that wouldn't be possible if my fate were a heart attack or a car accident.