"My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go."
- Barbara Corcoran

"I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities."
- Tina Fey

"I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?"
- Beth Ditto

"Tolerance can lead to learning something."
- Jakob Dylan

"Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth–or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them."
– Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith

"We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed."
- Mawhinney and Sagan

"All learning has an emotional base."
- Plato

#MainMessageForToday
Research shows that people who are more emotionally intelligent are more successful. Learning is also easier when the student is emotionally secure. But like everything else, there is a bad side to emotional intelligence. People who can control their emotions well can easily disguise their feelings and/or manipulate others.

"There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked."
— Eric Jensen

MainMessageForToday
Learning to control or deal with your anger may be the best thing you ever learn.

"I don’t like to lose—at anything… Yet I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us."
- Serena Williams

Children learn what they live......

Song #lesson: You may not be as smart as you think....

"But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew."
- From the song 'Colors of the Wind'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbuzskVs6rc