Responding with Wonderment and Awe
Finding the world awesome, mysterious. Being intrigued with phenomena and beauty. Have fun figuring it out!
| The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.
Albert Einstein.
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| The real mark of the creative person is that the unforeseen problem is a joy and not a curse.
Norman H. Mackworth
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| To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tyrone Edwards
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| Practice being excited.
Bill Foster
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| It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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| Align people's passions with the priorities and you'll achieve performance.
Steve Brown
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| Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
George Hegel
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| A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
Samuel Johnson
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| Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
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| Be anchored to some ideal, philosophy or cause that keeps you too excited to sleep.
Brian Koslow
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| Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Buddha
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| Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein
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| I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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| Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.
Jim Rohn
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| You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
Bob Nelson
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| You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing... Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something... The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale
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| I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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| Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson
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| To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
Anita Roddick, Founder/CEO, The Body Shop
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| We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
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| Enthusiasm is not something you can eat or drink. It's something that bubbles up from the depth of your own heart and soul.
Robert Schuller
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| We have to pursue this subject of fun very seriously if we want to stay competitive in the twenty-first century.
George Yeo
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| People do their best work when they are passionately engaged in what they are doing.
Erie S. Raymond
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| We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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| Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun.
Matthew S. Richter
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View Quotes:
- Persisting
- Managing Impulsivity
- Listening with Understanding and Empathy
- Thinking Flexibly
- Thinking About Thinking (Metacognition)
- Striving for Accuracy
- Questioning and Posing Problems
- Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
- Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision
- Gathering Data Through All Senses
- Creating, Imagining, Innovating
- Responding with Wonderment and Awe
- Finding Humor
- Taking Responsible Risks
- Thinking Interdependently
- Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
- About the Habits of Mind
- Modelling Habits of Mind
