Quotes related to the IBO Profile

Open minded

“Above all, remember that the most important thing you can

take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it's an

open mind.”

-Gail Rubin Bereny

“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. ”

-Phil Jackson

“An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a

worthwhile thought in it.”

-Anonymous

“Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.”

-Charles F. Kettering

“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective

judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”

-Elie Wiesel

Good Communicator

“The idea behind it is that good communications are up to the

communicator, understanding the person they are

communicating to as well as themselves,”

-John McLaughlin

“Anytime you become a better communicator, you're going to

become a more successful individual

-Sheryl Block

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice

as much as we speak.”

-Epictetus

“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding,

intimacy and mutual valuing.”

-Rollo May

“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves

ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”

-Anthony Robbins

Risk Taker

“Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage.

They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child

initially trusts life and the processes of life.”

-John Bradshaw

“Do not fear risk. All exploration, all growth is calculated. Without

challenge people cannot reach their higher selves. Only if we are

willing to walk over the edge can we become winners.”

-Families of the Challenge Space Shuttle Mission

“If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that

means you're not going anywhere.”

-John W. Holt

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”

-Herodotus

“Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the

known to the unknown.”

-George Shin

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far

one can go.”

- T.S. Eliot

“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the

quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear”.

-Dale Carnegie

Inquirer

“The world is but a school of inquiry.”

-Michel de Montaigne

“I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for

one´s self.”

-George Washington Carver

“Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must

acquire it.”

-Sudie Back

“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of

a vigorous intellect”.

-Samuel Johnson

“Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.”

-Voltaire

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a

vigorous mind.”

-Samuel Johnson

“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”

Hosea Ballou

Knowledgeable

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living;

the other helps you make a life.”

-Sandra Carey

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools

because they have to say something.”

-Plato

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”

-Anton Chekhov

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased

constantly, or it vanishes.”

- Peter F. Drucker

“Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and

there is no knowledge that is not power.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all

knowledge.”

-Thomas Berger

Principled

“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his

principles.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim

with the current.” 

-Thomas Jefferson

“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you

did it wrong.”

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change

the principles you live by, you will change your world.”

-Blaine Lee

Caring

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind

word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of

caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

-Leo F. Buscaglia

“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a

caring, sharing person inside.”

-Denis Waitley

“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For,

indeed, that's all who ever have.”

-Margaret Mead

“Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.”

-Anthony J. D´Angelo

Balanced

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep

moving.”

-Albert Einstein

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythym

and harmony.”

-Thomas Merton

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think

some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work

every day some.”

-Robert Fulghum

“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty,

character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

-Zig Ziglar

“The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the

hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.”

-Wallace D. Wattles

Reflective

“To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.”

-Jean Rostand

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and

reflection must finish him.”

-John Locke

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection

will come even more effective action.”

-Peter Drucker

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more

unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.”

-Margaret J. Wheatley

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” 

-Edmund Burke

Thinker

“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and

achieves the impossible.”

-Anonymous

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic

makes heroes."

-Benjamin Disraeli

“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a

way that will allow a solution.”

-Bertrand Russell

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be

tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

-James Allen

“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

-Voltaire

And just a reminder……

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet, 1865-1939