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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

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

– Eckhart Tolle

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

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

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

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

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

– Eve Ensler

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Winston Churchill

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

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

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

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

– Thomas Edison

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– The Dalai Lama

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– William James

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

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

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

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

– Virginia Woolf

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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