As true today...

We remember:

90% of what we do
70% of what we say or write
50% of what we hear and see
30% of what we see
10% of what we read

Copyright: Charles Merrill, Education Media 1960

2 timeless quotes from Plato

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."

Plato

How high do you want to fly?

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude"

Zig Ziglar

Reality and perception

"A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness".

Alford Korzybski

What this means is that our perception of reality is not reality itself but our own version of it, or our "map".

How to fail

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"

Bill Cosby

A flexible approach

"I never suffer my mind to be so wedded to any opinions as to refuse to listen to better ones when they are suggested to me"

Henry IV
King of France 1553 -1610