"Be Your Brilliant Best": The Search for Brilliant!

Sunday, October 05, 2008

The Search for Brilliant!

How do we develop brilliant learning and brilliant learning places...

Why not recall an activity, event, experience, person, or object that you remember as brilliant.

Describe it.
What were its characteristics?
What made it so wonderful?

Share your memories with a colleague and try to agree on one major characteristic that identifies something as being brilliant.

Discuss your characteristic in a small group of colleagues. Come to consensus on the most important characteristics. Try to put these characteristics in a word or short phrase. Send your reflections to me.
Chris

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Quotes to inspire you

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein

"The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
Sean O'Casey

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."
Henry Van Dyke

"The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
Mark Twain

"Those who remove mountains begin by carrying away small stones."
Chinese proverb

"There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world."
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

"Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world."
Sidney Lovett

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it."
Unknown

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the
status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
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