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"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." Maya Angelou Image of a young child making a model snowman

#WednesdayWisdom

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou

 
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." -Edward Everett Hale

#WednesdayWisdom

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

-Edward Everett Hale
"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way." -George Evans

#WednesdayWisdom

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way." -George Evans
Residential student preping her Halloween pumpkin. Text:"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall." -Oscar Wilde

#WednesdayWisdom

"And all at once, summer

collapsed into fall."
-Oscar Wilde

 
 
 
"We must accept finite disappointment, but must never lose infinite hope." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

#WednesdayWisdom

"We must accept finite disappointment, but must never lose infinite hope."

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt

#WednesdayWisdom

“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.”

– Theodore Levitt

 
 
 
 
Blind student using an apple press to make cider

#WednesdayWisdom

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Student at a track meet. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." -Eleanor Roosevelt

#WednesdayWisdom

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

 
Teacher helping a student use a bicycle. TEXT: "Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work." - William Crawford

#WednesdayWisdom

"Being a student is easy.
Learning requires actual work."

- William Crawford
 
"True guidance is like a small torch in a dark forest. It doesn't show everything at once. But gives enough light for the next step to be safe." -Swami Vivekanand

#WednesdayWisdom

"True guidance is like a small torch in a dark forest. It doesn't show everything at once. But gives enough light for the next step to be safe."

-Swami Vivekanand
VC student working viewed on Zoom by his teacher. "The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings." ~Kakuzo Okakaura

#WednesdayWisdom

"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings." ~Kakuzo Okakaura

 
 
Student at a whiteboard doing a presentation from his ipad. Text:“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.” – Alan Moore

#WednesdayWisdom

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
– Alan Moore
“Today you are you! That’s truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” -Dr. Suess

#WednesdayWisdom

“Today you are you! That’s truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

- Dr. Suess
 
 
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin, IMAGE:of a teachers virtual teaching screen with student faces

#WednesdayWisdom

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

-James Baldwin
Readiness child doing crafts. "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." -James Allen

#WednesdayWisdom

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

-James Allen

 
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." -John Dewey Image of student standing in front of a SmartBoard doing a presentation from his iPad

#WednesdayWisdom

"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen."

- Brene Brown
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." -John Dewey Image of student standing in front of a SmartBoard doing a presentation from his iPad

#WednesdayWisdom

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

-John Dewey

 
"A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at." -Bruce Lee
"A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at."
- Bruce Lee
Image of a Readiness students enjoying a sensory experience. “Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

#WednesdayWisdom

“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

-Eleanor Roosevelt
 
Image of 2 Readiness children playing during the Readiness "Winter Olympics" "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller
 

#WednesdayWisdom

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

 
 
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -Henry Ford

#WednesdayWisdom

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

-Henry Ford
 
Image: Student of the NYI Basketball team playing in a game. "Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." -Vince Lombardi
 

#WednesdayWisdom

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

-Vince Lombardi

 
Image: Student of a young NYI student being tested during the Braille Challenge. "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." -Alexander Graham Bell
 

#WednesdayWisdom

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

-Alexander Graham Bell
Image of a student learning about hockey. "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

#WednesdayWisdom

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
Image: Teacher hugging a student after an achievement. "Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon." -Ann Lieberman
 

#WednesdayWisdom

"Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon."

-Ann Lieberman
Image of an elementary student playing the piano. Quote: #WednesdayWisdom "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit." -Will Durant

#WednesdayWisdom

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit."

-Will Durant
 
 
Image: The student council president speaking at a school assembly. "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

#WednesdayWisdom

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus." -

Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
 
Image of student making apple cider "The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you." -B.B. King
"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you."
-B.B. King
Image of a Readiness student doing crafts "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -Marcel Proust
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
-Marcel Proust
 
 
Image of 3 staff members holding a sign about #GivingTuesday “Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.” -John D. Rockefeller Jr.
“Think of giving not as a duty
but as a privilege.”
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Image of the NYI Basketball team entering the gym during the Pep Rally"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." -John Quincy Adams
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
-John Quincy Adams
 
 
 
Image of a teacher reaching out to a child.. "If you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself , the second is to help others.” – Audrey Hepburn
"If you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”
– Audrey Hepburn
Image of a child playing with a classmate. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit” - E.E. Cummings
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”
- E.E. Cummings
 
 
 
 
Image of a student and staff on a tandem bicycle. "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." -Walt Disney
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
-Walt Disney
 
 
 
Image of student working together on an art project. "Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits." -Twyla Tharp
"Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits."
-Twyla Tharp
 
 
Image of a young blind student learning about ice hockey."To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Student hugging his teaching assistant during the first day of school. "In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit." -Anne Frank
"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
-Anne Frank
 
Image of a smiling happy student outdoors. "True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." -Helen Keller
"True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
-Helen Keller
Image of students performing during a concert. "Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought." -EY Harburg
"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought."
-EY Harburg

Image of the all the campers and staff of Camp Wanaqua at the final BBQ "We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams." -Jeremy Irons
"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
-Jeremy Irons
 
 
Image of a young laughing child in a toy car. Quote: "Having fun is the best way to learn." - Albert Einstein
"Having fun is the best way to learn."
- Albert Einstein
Students arriving during the first day of school. “You're off to Great Places! Today is your first day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!” - Dr. Seuss
“You're off to Great Places! Today is your first day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!”
- Dr. Seuss
Happy First Day of School!
Image of a teacher helping a blind student learn about hockey. "Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two together." - Scott Hayden
"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two together."
- Scott Hayden
Image of a teacher with a preschooler exploring water and grass. "The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running." - Simone Weil
"The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running."
- Simone Weil
Image of a student playing goalball: "What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win." - Patty Berg
"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win."
- Patty Berg
 
 
 
"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting" - Brian Tracy, Image of students bringing donations to a food drive
"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting" -
Brian Tracy
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro
"The secret of life is enjoying
the passage of time."
- James Taylor
 
 
"Do anything, but let it produce joy." -Walt Whitman
"Do anything,
but let it produce joy."
-Walt Whitman
"What we learn with pleasure we never forget." -Alfred Mercier Image of an NYISE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Lao Tzu Image of a young student walking up to get his 6th grade diploma
"The journey of a thousand
miles begins with one step."
- Lao Tzu
"What we learn with pleasure we never forget." -Alfred Mercier Image of an NYISE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION
"What we learn with pleasure
we never forget."
-Alfred Mercier
" Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return." -Karen Kain
" Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return."
-Karen Kain
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"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."
-Jonas Salk
" Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." - Maya Angelou
" Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
- Maya Angelou
 
 
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
– Helen Keller
"Here's what I always say: If they can see it, they can be it."
- Geena Davis
 
 
"We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2 Readiness students during the St. Jude's Trikeathon
"We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
#WednesdayWisdom The Bell choir performing, "Music is the universal language of mankind." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#WednesdayWisdom, Two preschoolers of the Readiness Program hugging. "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." 
- Lao Tzu
 
#WednesdayWisdom, Success is not final: failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill, Student Getting an academic award
Success is not final: failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
More "Advocacy, at its core, is an exercise in empathy." -Samantha Power
"Advocacy, at its core,
is an exercise in empathy."
-Samantha Power
"Every skill you acquire
doubles your odds of success."
- Scott Adams
#WednesdayWisdom Picture of Jason giving an academic award to a student. "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." - B.B. King
"The beautiful thing about
learning is that no one can
take it away from you."
- B.B. King
 
 
"Music is the space
between the notes"
- Claude Debussy

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the
best day of the year.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
"When one teaches, two learn." - Robert Heinlein, image of a teacher with a student
"Music is the space
between the notes"
- Claude Debussy
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” -Charles Dickens

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
- Charles Dickens


“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” -Charles Dickens

"Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination."
-Carl von Clausewitz

  

"I learned the value of hard 
work by working hard."
- Margaret Mead

 
"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." - Margaret J. Wheatley Image of the 49th Precint with our students after a anti-bullying assembly

"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."

- Margaret J. Wheatley

 "Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction." -John Crosby Image of student and teacher hugging

"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction." 
-John Crosby

 		 "The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." -Albert Einstein

"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

-Albert Einstein

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”.
– Victor Hugo

 
"Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand" - Dr. Seuss - image of a young child with Santa Claus

"Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand" 
- Dr. Seuss

 "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." -Og Mandino Image of VC student playing basketball.

"Failure will never overtake me
if my determination to succeed
is strong enough." 
- Og Mandino

 
"Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful." -Kailash Satyarthi, Image: Two young Readiness kids enjoying a hay ride.
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them" - Sir William Bragg
This #GivingTuesday help our students access Technology that will prepare them for the future!
Thank you to all who supported #givingtuesday ! It’s not to late to #StepUpWithSTEM ! Donate here!
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
 Thank you to all who supported #givingtuesday ! It’s not to late to #StepUpWithSTEM ! Donate here!
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
 
 
"If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good - Dr. Seuss Happy Halloween Image: 3 young students in costume at a Halloween party
"If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good 
- Dr. Seuss
Happy Halloween
"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present: You create a good future by creating a good present." -Eckhart Tolle, Image of the NYI Swim Team at the Pep Rally
"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present: You create a good future by creating a good present."
-Eckhart Tolle
 
  
"Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful." -Kailash Satyarthi, Image: Two young Readiness kids enjoying a hay ride.
"Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful."
-Kailash Satyarthi
 
“Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.” -Itzhak Perlman
“Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.”
-Itzhak Perlman
White Cane Day Photo: "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Edward Everett Hale
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
- Edward Everett Hale
 “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” -Malala Yousafzai Malala, Image of student of student taking to news crew.
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
- Malala Yousafzai
 
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings" - Henry David Thoreau Image of 3 girls sitting in music class with broad smiles
"The language of friendship
is not words but meanings" 
- Henry David Thoreau
 
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." -Booker T. Washington Description: Cheering elementary children at a school pep rally showing off their hard won trophy
"If you want to lift yourself up,
lift up someone else." 
-Booker T. Washington
"Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist." -Stephen Hawking Description: Schermerhorn student looking closely at marine animals.
"Try to make sense of what 
you see and wonder about 
what makes the universe 
exist." - Stephen Hawking
 
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Image of 4 Schermerhorn students on a playground slide pileup laughing
#WednesdayWisdom
"The only way to have
a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure." - William Feather Image of a pre-schooler arriving for her first day of school
#WednesdayWisdom
"One way to get the most out
of life is to look upon it
as an adventure."
- William Feather
  
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn" - Benjamin Franklin Image: of a student writing on the blackboard with his teacher.
"Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn"
- Benjamin Franklin
 
"Play is really the work of childhood." - Fred Rogers
"Play is really the work
of childhood."
- Fred Rogers
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow." -Edward Teller - Picture of student at Science Fair
#WednesdayWisdom
"The science of today is the
technology of tomorrow."
-Edward Teller
"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness." -William Arthur Ward
#WednesdayWisdom
"A warm smile is the universal
language of kindness." -
William Arthur Ward
 
 
A young blind student works with his teacher on an art project. Quote:"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." - Napoleon Hill
"Patience, persistence and
perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
-Napoleon Hill
"Family is not an important thing. It's everything." -Michael J. Fox
"Family is not an important
thing. It's everything."
-Michael J. Fox
 
"Laughter is the closest 
distance between two people."
-Victor Borge
 
 
 
Photo of 4 happy students. Quote: "A friend is a gift you give yourself" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"A friend is a gift 
you give yourself"
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Child of the Readiness Program stands proudly next to his displayed art work. Text over image: "Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity." -Yo-Yo Ma
"Passion is one great force
that unleashes creativity."
-Yo-Yo Ma
 
 
Image description: An American flag waving on a flagpole under a beautiful sky. Text: "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." 
- Nelson Mandela
 
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." -Omar Khayyam
"Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life."
-Omar Khayyam
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot on an image of a student climbing a wall
"Only those who will risk going
too far can possibly find out
how far one can go."
- T.S. Eliot
  
Photo of student getting ready for Graduation. Text: "What we learn with pleasure we never forget." -Alfred Mercier
"What we learn with pleasure
we never forget."
-Alfred Mercier
 Happy Readiness student on a tricycle. Text: "Children see magic because they look for it." -Christopher Moore
"Children see magic 
because they look for it." 
-Christopher Moore
Happy Readiness student on a tricycle. Text: "Children see magic because they look for it." -Christopher Moore
"The only thing that overcomes
hard luck is hard work."
-Harry Golden
 
Happy Readiness student on a tricycle. Text: "Children see magic because they look for it." -Christopher Moore
"Every flower is a soul 
blossoming in nature." 
- Gérard de Nerval
Two student standing in front of their Science Fair exhibit. Quote: "In union there is strength." - Aesop
"In union there is strength."
- Aesop
 
Two student standing in front of their Science Fair exhibit. Quote: "In union there is strength." - Aesop
"A smile is happiness you'll 
find right under your nose." 
-Tom Wilson
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." - Sylvia Plath Image of a young elementary student performing at Spring recital on an electric pioano
"The worst enemy to 
creativity is self-doubt." 
- Sylvia Plath
 
 
Wednesday Wisdom - “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Winnie the Pooh
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
- Winnie the Pooh
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward
 
3 young students holding a sign the says "#love my school day". Text above says "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin
"An investment in knowledge
pays the best interest."
-Benjamin Franklin
 
Students during White Cane Day. Quote: "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." -Helen Keller
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
-Helen Keller
 
Student with his teacher getting acknowlegement of his achievements. - Quote “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” -Albert Einstein
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
-Albert Einstein
  Wednesday Wisdom - "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” -C.S. Lewis
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” -C.S. Lewis
 
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! From all of us here at NYISE
#WednesdayWisdom
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
From all of us here at NYISE
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustices" - William Faulkner Photo of a proud NYI student showing off his cane.
#WednesdayWisdom
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustices" 
- William Faulkner
 
 
Middle school student with parent and sister. Quote: The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."-Michelle Obama
The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."
- Michelle Obama
Wednesday Wisdom: "Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars." - Les Brown
#WednesdayWisdom
 "Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars." 
- Les Brown
Wednesday Wisdom: "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
#WednesdayWisdom
"The good life is one inspired by
love and guided by knowledge."
- Bertrand Russell
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." -Charlie Chaplin
#WednesdayWisdom
"A day without laughter
is a day wasted." 
-Charlie Chaplin
 
Wednesday Wisdom: "Live without seeing, but be who you are." Louis Braille
#WednesdayWisdom
"Live without seeing, 
but be who you are."
- Louis Braille
 Wednesday Wisdom: "And now we welcome the New Year. Full of things that have never been." -Rainer Maria Rilke
#WednesdayWisdom
"And now we welcome the
New Year. Full of things that
have never been." 
-Rainer Maria Rilke 
Wednesday Wisdom: "Unity is strength...when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." -Mattie Stepanek
#WednesdayWisdom
"Unity is strength...when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." 
-Mattie Stepanek
Wednesday Wisdom: Never underestimate the power of passion-Eve Sawyer
#WednesdayWisdom
"Never underestimate
the power of passion"
-Eve Sawyer

Photo of the NYI Swim Team with the words "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." -Henry Ford
#WednesdayWisdom
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."
-Henry Ford
  
 Wednesday Wisdom: "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
#WednesdayWisdom
"Adopt the pace of nature: 
her secret is patience." 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Young children gathering pumpkins: Text-Alone we can do so little, Together we can do so much. - Helen Keller
#WednesdayWisdom: 
Alone we do so little, 
Together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
Student high up a climbing wall- "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." -Mark Twain
#WednesdayWisdom
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." 
-Mark Twain
  
Students at the annual Residential Thanksgiving Dinner
#WednesdayWisdom
"If you are really thankful, 
what do you do? You share."
-W. Clement Stone
 
 Students at EAAB Track tournament running a dash
#WednesdayWisdom
"If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."  MLK

#WednesdayWisdom: 2 VC girls singing- Quote: Dont let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden
#WednesdayWisdom: 
"Dont let what you cannot 
do interfere with what
you can do."
- John Wooden
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. - Robin Williams
#WednesdayWisdom: 
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
- Robin Williams
VP Jason with VC student
#WednesdayWisdom
"A mentor is someone who
allows you to see the hope
inside yourself." - Oprah 		   Image a yound female student working on art project. Overlay the words "Logic will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere" by Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B,
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
Young girls playing with educational toy 
Educaton is not the filling
of a pail,  but the lighting
of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats