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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.

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Robert Frost

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

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

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

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

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

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

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

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

– Annie Dillard

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

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

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Jack Kerouac

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

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

– Carl Rogers