Adlerisms 1. “I can think, I can wait, I can fast…”
–Siddhartha
2. “Fate will unwind as it must…”
-Beowulf
3. “A mistake is repeated until it is learned…”
-Confucius
4. “My worst enemy, my best friend – myself…”
-Henry Reyna – Zoot Suit 5. “Tender yourself more dearly!”
-Polonius, Hamlet 6. “If you fail to prepare – prepare to fail…”
-Steve Prefontaine, Olympic Gold Medalist 7. “Our intentions are far more different than our actions…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 8. “Defeat distraction, or distractions will defeat you…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 9. “Those who settle for less end with less…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 10. “A good fall makes one wiser…”
-Aesop
11. “If I were you I would turn back now and save some time and grief. Believe me; you’re heading in the wrong direction…”
-Coach Adler LQHS, The Two Ants 12. “In the middle of the journey of our life – I came to find myself in a dark woods where the straightway was lost…”
-Dante Alighieri 13. “Acta non verba” (Actions not words)
-Latin Idiom 14. “Carpe diem” (Seize the day)
-Latin Idiom 15. “A good student only needs to be told once!”
-Coach Adler LQHS 16. “Every day wasted is another day you’ll never get back!”
-Boyd Grant, Fresno State Basketball 17. “A future filled with regret is not a bright one…”
-Koby Serreitelli 18. “If you remain organized you stay in control”
-Elise Alverzez 2013 19. “Impossible is just a big word that gets thrown around by small people…”
-Javier Duenas 2013 20. “The moment you decide to fail or not to try your best, you begin to close the doors to different opportunities in life…” -Jose Inzunza 2013 21. “You can just imagine when the fairytale ends and the reality begins…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 22. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment…”
-Jim Rohn, ESPN 23. “Add a beautiful flower to a bouquet.”
-Chinese Proverb 24. “You are 200,000 years beyond the evolutionary process. Act like it!”
-Dionte Carter 2011 25. “It’s not how much you know – it’s how prepared you are…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 26. “Earned – not given…”
-Nike
27. “Review what you know – study what you don’t know…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 28. “In the real world there are real consequences…”
-Isreal Valenzuela 2103 29. “Easy is a trap! When knowledge becomes easy, it will have no value…”
-Frollo (The Hunchback) 30. “Shoulda, Coulda, means you’ll never know…”
- Shim Moore (Trevor Esping 2013) 31. “I was lazy, I didn’t do my work and I did not try – I have done all these things and they have done everything but benefit me…”
-Rachel Stanfill 2013 32. “What you do today will affect you tomorrow.”
-Miranda Delaherran 2013 33. “If you know what the problem is – why don’t you do something about it?”
-Coach Adler LQHS 34. “You will not be successful if you do not step out of your comfort zone.”
-Syndi P. Ahrens (Coach Ahrens) 2013 35. The Thirteen Swags 1. Attendance 2. Maturity 3. Work habits/Quality of work 4. Reading Comprehension 5. Extended Vocab 6. Short/Long term memory 7. Oral discussion 8. Note taking skills 9. Group study 10. Written communication skills 11. Organization skills 12. Academic Integrity 13. Balance -Coach Alder LQHS 36. “The problem of man are man-made.”
-JFK
37. “A wise man once said: Never argue with a fool – because people from a distance can’t tell who is who…”
-Mark Twain 38. “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world…”
-Malala Yousafzai 39. “Good things don’t happen to people who don’t care…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 40. “Nothing has changed in my life except this; weakness fear and hopefulness died – strength, power and courage was born…”
-Malala Yousafzai 41. “Do not be surprised to be caught in the middle of your poor choices one day.”
-Cassandra Lorenzana 2013 42. “It is up to you to decide how bumpy the road ahead will become…”
-Michaelangelo Alvarado 2013 43. “I first need to learn balance: Although I should have learned it by now, balance has been my worst enemy…”
-Oscar Amezcua 2013 44. “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink…”
-American Proverb (Adriana Pronce) 2013 45. “A dream without effort is forever a dream…”
-Yaming Wang 2013 46. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe – then you will be successful.”
-Matt Frailey 2013 47. “The quarterback had a single season to prepare for that championship game – how long do you have to prepare for the rest of your life?”
-Brielle Leon 2013 48. “All things are written for out learning; so take the grain, and let the chaff be still…”
-Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales 49. “We make our own self a target…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 50. “Alas, how come it’s that a mortal man art so unnatural and false within?”
-The Pardoner’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer) (Canterbury Tales) 51. “Radix Malorum est Cupitias…” (“Greed is the root of all evil”)
- The Pardoner’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer) (Canterbury Tales) 52. “There is no excuse to fail a class…”
-Jami Morrow 2013 53. “Attendance represents you as a person…”
-Kelsey Dekinipp 2013 54. “The error of one moment can become the sorrow of the an entire life…”
-Chinese Proverb
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“One of the most important jobs a teacher has is to allow students to make contact with their ignorance…”
-Mark Edmondson 56. “Repetition + Repetition + Repetition = Learning”
-Coach Adler LQHS 57. “Our greatest glory is not never failing – but rising up every time we fail…”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson 58. “Man’s evil he learned by himself – not from God.”
-Michaelangelo
59. “Once we know our weakness they cease to do us harm.”
-George Lictenburg 60. “I wanted to paint man as we first created innocent still free of sin – grateful for the gift of life…”
-Michaelangelo
61. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen…”
-Michael Jordan 62. “I’m just lying here and I’m wondering – how I got here – how I’m not anything like I’d hoped that I’d be. I’m not even close to the guy I thought I’d end up being – and it kinda blows…”
-Tommy Rowlands – Beautiful Girls 63. “If you do not change direction – you may end up where you are heading.”
-Lao Tzu 64. “There is nothing wrong with change – if it is in the right direction…”
-Winston Churchill 65. “Charge starts when someone sees the next step…”
-William Drayton 66. “Keep testing your limits…”
-Jor-Ei – Man of Steel 67. “It doesn’t matter who you are – what matters is your plan…”
-Bane – Dark Knight Rises 68. “One cannot build on sand…”
-Juan Gallardo (Blood and Sand) 69. “There is a fine line between participation and learning…”
-Aristotle
70. “They Key is to learn something new every day!”
-Boyd Grant – Fresno State 71. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
-Ray Bradbury 72. “The books are to remind of us what asses and fools we are…”
-Faber (Fahrenheit 451) 73. “You are one bad decision away…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 74. “You can choose your sin but you can’t chooser the consequences…”
-Jenny Sawford 75. “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me…”
-William Shakespeare 76. “The common curse of mankind… Fully and ignorance!”
-William Shakespeare (Thoersites) Troilus and Cressida 77. “One must find the source within one’s own self, one must possess it…”
-Siddhartha
78. “Don’t mistake activity with achievement…”
-John Wooden (UCLA Basketball) 79. “They are an intriguing people. From the moment they wake they devote themselves to the perfection of what they pursue. I have never seen such discipline…”
-Capt. Algren – The last Samurai 80. “Our remedies off in ourselves do lie…”
-William Shakespeare 81. “As its best discipline is a form of teaching inner controls…”
-Alicia F. Lieberman (Writer) 82. “A person’s attitude towards discipline is the measure of that person’s own orientation to order…”
-Max Van Manen (Writer) 83. “What! Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?”
-William Shakespeare (Shylock) the Merchant of Venice 84. “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make the big things happen…”
-John Wooden (UCLA Basketball) 85. “If you want to be in front – then act as if you were behind…”
-Lao Tzu (Father of Taoism) 86. “If you don’t discipline ourselves – the world will do it for us…”
-William Feather (Writer) 87. “Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do things you have to do, whether you like them or not…”
-Thomas Huxley (Writer) 88. “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority…”
-Vince Lombardi (Green Bay Packers) 89. “You can’t control; the wind – but you can adjust the sails…”
-Ricky Skaggs (Singer/Songwriter) 90. ”The faults is not in our stars, but in ourselves…”
-William Shakespeare (Caussius) Julius Caesar 91. “June is not the finish line – it’s just the start of another new race…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 92. “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy…” * (Hamlet) William Shakespeare
93.
“If you do not change directions… you may end up where you are heading…”
-Lao Tzu (Father of Taoism) 94. “This above all: to thine own self be true…”
-Polonius (Shakespeare) Hamlet 95. “What a falling off was there…”
-The Ghost (Shakespeare) Hamlet 96. “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy…”
-Hamlet (Shakespeare) 97. “The more we study the more we discover our own ignorance…”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley 98. “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets…”
-Leonardo Da Vinci 99. “Reality is a hard medicine to take in large doses…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 100. “You must choose wisely…”
-The Knight, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 101. “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success…”
-Henry Ford 102. “The truth is… I’ve done dreadful things. My life has been a monstrous corruption – and there will be a price…”
-Dorian Gray 2009 103. “Adler Education 101: - behave, do your work, and discipline yourself.”
-Coach Adler LQHS 104. “Keep a memory of theme – not as a king of hero, but as a man; Fallible and flawed…”
-Beowulf
105. “Being ignored is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn…”
-Benjamin Franklin 106. “In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention…”
-Lou Holtz (Notre Dame) 107. “There are truths you have to grow into…”
-H.G. Wells Wrier 108. “Drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring…”
-Alexander Pope (Essay on Criticism) 109. “What a falling off was there…”
-The Ghost (Hamlet) 110. “Cheaters never prosper…”
-Aesop
111. “There is a reaction for every action in physics and in man…”
-Abbe Farla; Count of Monte Cristo 112. “If you’re any good at all; you know you can do better…”
-Lindsay Buchingham 113. “A tree falls the way is leans; be careful the way you lean…”
-The Lorax 114. “Kites rise highest against the wind…”
-Winston Churchill 115. “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month!”
-Theodore Roosevelt 116. “One degree can make a difference…”
-SBB College 117. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed…”
-Theodore Roosevelt 118. “It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after…”
-Timon (Timon of Athens) (Shakespeare) 119. “Persistence, perfection, patience, production, prioritize, your passion. It keeps you sane.”
-Criss Jami (Writer) 120. “Did you ever consider the consequences of your action?”
-Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 121. “Initiative is doing the right thing without being told…”
-Vincent Hugo 122. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Virtue is doing it.”
-David Star Jordan 123. “Life is so simple when you’re just doing your job.”
-Jeanette Winterson (The Stone Gods) 124. “You can’t recycle a waste of time…”
-Martha Lopez LQHS 2013 125. “Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.”
-Voltaire Candide 126. “It is only the ignorant who despise education.”
-Publilous Syrus 127. “Practice is the best of all instructors.”
-Publilous Syrus 128. “Our past signs do have a way of catching up to us…”
-Hannah Warren (California Suite) 129. “This is not a dress rehearsal – this is it!”
-Tom Cunningham 130. “Most necessary ‘tis we forget to pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.”
-Player King (Hamlet) William Shakespeare 131. “Every truth has four corners as a teacher, I give one corner, and it’s up to you to find the other three…”
-Sophocles
132. “It is a painful thing to look at your trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else has caused it…” -Sophocles 133. “Learning is like rowing upstream not to advance is to drop back…”
-Chinese Proverb 134. “There are always two choices – two paths to take. One is easy – and its only reward is that it’s easy…”
-Chinese Proverb 135. “To get to the top of the mountain – no matter which path you choose, they all go up…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 136. “Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn…”
-Greek Proverb 137. “Do not pray for easy lives pray to be a stronger man…”
-John F. Kennedy 138. “Don’t allow others to extinguish your flame…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 139. “If we take care of the moments, the year will take care of themselves.”
-Maria Edgeworth 140. “A winning effort begins with preparation…”
-Joe Gibbs (Washington Redskins) 141. “Cogito Ergo, Sum…” (I think therefore, I am)
-Rene Descartes 142. “And you all know security is mortals’ chiefest enemy…”
-Hamlet (Macbeth) (Shakespeare) 143. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go…”
-Dr. Seuss 144. “There is a take in the affairs of men, which take at the floor, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyages of their life is bound in shadows and in miseries on such a full sea we are now afloat – and we must take the current when it serves, or lose all our ventures…”
-Brutus (Julius Caesar) (Shakespeare) 145. “Wisdom can be found in the most unlikely places…”
-Henry Skinger (A Good Year) 146. “Better three hours too soon than a minute two late…”
-Falstaff Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare) 147. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take…”
-Wayne Gretzky 148. “We can’t retract the decisions we’ve made, we can only affect the decisions we’re going to make form here…”
-Nick Dice (Law Abiding Citizen) 149. “The key to cooperative group is cooperation…”
-Coach Adler LQHS 150. “It’s inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it…”
-Henry Skinner (A Good Year) 151. “Without feelings of respect what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
-Confucius
152. “Though no one can make a new start – anyone can start now and make a brand new ending…”
-Carl Bard 153. “You were right. Freedom is not just a dream; it’s there on the other side of those fences we build all by ourselves…”
-Ethan Powell (Instinct) 154. “The powerful play goes on and on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
-John Keating (Dead Poet’s Society) 155. “There’s none so blind as they that refuse to see…”
-Jonathan Swift 156. “A year from now you may wish you had started today!”
-Karen Lamb 157. “You are a victim of the rules you live by…”
-Jenny Houzer Truisms 158. “Strong reasons make strong actions…”
-Lewis, Life and Death of King John (Shakespeare) 159. “Of all men’s miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing…”
-Herodotus
160. “On the night of your 10th year reunion from high school will you be present to share your successes or will you be at home or will you be at home a shamed of your failures?”
-Coach Adler LQHS 161. “Now we suffer from what isn’t heard…”
-Aaron Rodea 2011 162. “From hardship comes enlightenment…”
-Samantha Fulton Bottleshock 163. “Who is the greater fool? The fool, or the fool who follows him?”
-Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)