This document contains a collection of short quotes and sayings on various topics including work, education, the future, time management, and life experiences. Some of the quotes encourage preparing students for the future rather than the past, doing fewer things better, not worrying about problems from yesterday, and making the most of each day.

1. I really enjoy work
I can sit and watch it
for hours

2. Today’s greatest labor
saving device is...
Tomorrow

3. If it wasn’t for deadlines
nothing would get done

4. I touch the future
I teach
Christa McAuliffe

5. I cannot teach anybody anything
I can only make them think
Socrates

6. Our job -
Prepare kids for their future
not our past

7. Listening isn’t learning
and telling isn’t teaching

8. The future
is where we will spend the
rest of our lives

9. Children don’t care how much we
know
unless they know how much
we care

10. Do fewer things better
Steve Jobs, Apple Computer

11. Ever notice that there are more last
minute details
than there are minutes?

12. It’s too bad the people that know
how to run this country
are too busy teaching
school!

13. Warning: Dates on the calendar
are closer than they appear

14. My problems today don’t worry me
I haven’t solved those from
yesterday yet...

15. God put me on this earth to do a
certain number of things
and right now I am so far
behind I will never die...

16. My mind acts like lightning
one brilliant flash and it’s
gone

17. Never put off until tomorrow
what you can put off
indefinitely

18. I try to take one day at a time
but lately several days have
attacked me at once

19. It’s been one of those days
all week

20. I had a life
I just don’t remember
where I put it

21. The beatings will continue
until moral improves

22. A meeting is an event
where minutes are taken
and hours are lost

23. If all else fails
read the directions

24. PLAN A
HEAD

25. If it’s green, it’s Biology
If it stinks, it’s Chemistry
If it has numbers, it’s Math
If it doesn’t work, it’s
Technology

26. Worry does not take
the pain out of tomorrow
it just takes
the joy out of today

27. Even if you are on the right track
you’ll get run over if you
just sit there
Will Rogers

28. Have you ever stopped to
think
and forgotten to start again?