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Dr. Carol Horn, Educator

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About Dr. Carol Horn

Dr. Carol V. Horn is coordinator of Advanced Academics Program (former Gifted and Talented Programs) for Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia.

She has worked in gifted education for the past 20 years and has a Master of Education in Educational Psychology with an Emphasis on Gifted from the University of Virginia.

She earned her doctorate in Teacher Preparation and Special Education from The George Washington University and is the 2002 recipient of the Hollingsworth Award from the National Association for Gifted Children for outstanding research study in the field of gifted education.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

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

– William Butler Yeats

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War