The Human Will Is An Amazing Thing.

A Cardinal Principle Of Total Quality Escapes Too Many Managers: You Cannot Continuously Improve Interdependent Systems And Processes Until You Progressively Perfect Interdependent, Interpersonal Relationships.

Innocent Pleasures In Moderation Can Provide Relaxation For The Body And Mind And Can Foster Family And Other Relationships. But Pleasure, Per Se, Offers No Deep, Lasting Satisfaction Or Sense Of Fulfillment. The Pleasure-centered Person, Too Soon Bored With Each Succeeding Level Of "fun," Constantly Cries For More And More. So The Next New Pleasure Has To Be Bigger And Better, More Exciting, With A Bigger "high." A Person In This State Becomes Almost Entirely Narcissistic, Interpreting All Of Life In Terms Of The Pleasure It Provides To The Self Here And Now.

Our Character Is Basically A Composite Of Our Habits. Because They Are Consistent, Often Unconcious Patterns, They Constantly, Daily, Express Our Character.

Your Systems Are Perfectly Designed To Get The Results That You Are Getting.

Reducing Children To A Test Score Is The Worst Form Of Identity Theft We Could Commit In Schools.