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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.

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

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

– T.S. Eliot

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

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

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

– Hindu Proverb

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– William James

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Ajahn Chah

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Oscar Wilde

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

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

– Booker T. Washington

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

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

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

– Robert H. Schuller

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

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

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers