University of Rhode Island Helpdesk http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/ "By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn." - Latin proverb http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open." - anonymous http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts." - Nikki Giovanni http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction." - John C. Crosby http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions." - Robert Anthony http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend." - Walter Savage Landor http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." - Richard Bach http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "One change makes way for the next, giving us the opportunity to grow." - Vivian Buchen http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Coming together is a beginning…Keeping together is progress…Working together is a success." - Anonymous http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions." - Earl Gray Stevens http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people." - Chip R. Bell http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on." - Henry Burton http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Learning is finding out that you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers." - Richard Bach http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it' when things are tough." - Richard M. De Vos http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "A smile is contagious; be a carrier." - Anonymous http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." - Benjamin Disraeli http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Tell them what to do, but don't tell them how to do it. You will be amazed at their ingenuity." - General George S. Patton http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "You can write fancy definitions but one word can define diversity: inclusiveness." - Susan Pater, Cochise Co. Coop. Ext. Director http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "The biggest key is the mentor must care about the mentee. People need to want to do this job." - Rob Leonard, Plant Sciences, Univ. of Arizona http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "One's job is a function not only of the university, but of the community at large. What can the community/university bring to the person for them to want to be here?" - Rob Grumbles, Mohave Co. Coop Ext Dir. http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Success in an academic career is enhanced by good mentoring or a good mentor is essential to a successful academic career." - James Collins, Vet Science & Microbiology http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die." - Eleanor Roosevelt http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." - Booker T. Washington http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward." - Booker T. Washington http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." - Benjamin Franklin http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Only a life lived for others is worth living." - Albert Einstein http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." - Abraham Lincoln http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful." - Marie Curie http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving." - Henry Ford http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Things do not change; we change." - Henry David Thoreau http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn." - Henry David Thoreau http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Once I knew only darkness and stillness…my life was without past or future…but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at the emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living." - Helen Keller http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain." - Helen Keller http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "All human beings, by nature, desire to know." - Aristotle http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." - Mark Twain http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds." - Theodore Roosevelt http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up." - Oliver Wendell Holmes http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil." - Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "Our chief want in life is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.uri.edu/helpdesk/feeds/quote.xml