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...good design is adaptive...you design for maximum flexibility and adaptability.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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Context drives design.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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One aspect of responsive teaching is providing the same content at different levels of complexity.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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When you are teaching, your personality, your approach, and your values influence the form and outcomes of the process.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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But it's also important to allow space for the learners to influence the shape of their own learning.

~ Ralf St. Clair (Author of Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning)

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Enforcing the same learning on all students, as some have mistakenly advocated on the basis of "standards," slows down the most capable students and leaves behind those already struggling, creates inappropriate limitations on what students can accomplish, and in effect, dumbs down teaching and learning.

~ Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein & Allen Webb (Authors of Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: Literacy Practices Approach for 6 - 12 Classrooms)

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We all grow strongest in the crucible of adversity.

~ Dirk Gardner (Quoted by Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson & Ethan Willis, Authors of The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business)

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Resistance is a signal that you are moving into a new area, however, whatever you resist persists. Do not resist the resistance. 

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...an enormous amount of recent research known as neural plasticity or brain plasticity has revealed that the brain never stops changing and adjusting and is constantly revising itself.

~ Charlene Day (Author of The 30 Laws of Flow: Timeless Principles for Entrepreneurial Success)

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The Law of Success has a bottom line: Real success comes when your results benefit your fellow human beings and the world is enriched.

~ Charlene Day (Author of The 30 Laws of Flow: Timeless Principles for Entrepreneurial Success)

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

~ Earl Nightingale (Quoted by Charlene Day, Author of The 30 Laws of Flow: Timeless Principles for Entrepreneurial Success)

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Success is the attainment of your definite chief aim without violating the rights of others.

~ Napoleon Hill (Quoted by Charlene Day, Author of The 30 Laws of Flow: Timeless Principles for Entrepreneurial Success)

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Apparent intuitions which coincide with strong wishes and which involve high risks should always be regarded with suspicion.

~ A.H.Z. Carr ( Author of How to Attract Good Luck: And Make the Most of It in Your Daily Life)

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...abilities often continue to develop within men until quite late in life that it is never quite fair to keep a fixed opinion of any man's potential of accomplishment without making allowance for changes in him...Too often we tend to use last year's measure to judge this year's man.

~ A.H.Z. Carr (Author of How to Attract Good Luck: And Make the Most of It in Your Daily Life)

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...the formula for success was ignorance plus confidence...

~ Mark Twain (Quoted by A.H.Z Carr, Author of How to Attract Good Luck: And Make the Most of It in Your Daily Life)

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...every act of true friendship is proof of a rising luck-potential within us. Such actions are like oil, lubricating the psychological mechanism of generosity which so many allow to rust unused within them.

~ A.H.Z. Carr (Author of How to Attract Good Luck: And Make the Most of It in Your Daily Life)

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For the human mind, however ingenious and imaginative, requires constant stimulation from the external world in order to keep its sap and spring.

~ A.H.Z. Carr (Author of How to Attract Good Luck: And Make the Most of It in Your Daily Life)

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And when zest enters into life, luck is usually close behind.

~ A.H.Z Carr (Author of How to Attract Good Luck: And Make the Most of It in Your Daily Life)

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An everyday remark, uttered by chance, meshes with a person's interests -- and the result is an important new fulfillment in life.

~ A.H.Z. Carr (Author of How to Attract Good Luck: And Make the Most of It in Your Daily Life)

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Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki (Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!)

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