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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.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

– J.K. Rowling

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

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

– Thomas Carlyle

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

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

– Carl Rogers

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

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

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

– Chinese Proverb

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

– General Omar Bradley

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– August Rush

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Mae West

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

– Ray Bradbury

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"

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Lao Tzu

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– Jack Kerouac

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

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

– Robert Frost

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett