Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.
George Leonard
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
George Leonard
Age: 87 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 6
Aikidoka
Writer
George Burr Leonard
Changing
Generation
Generations
Deep
Educators
Way
Educator
Preventing
Societies
Require
More quotes by George Leonard
At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.
George Leonard
How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.
George Leonard
Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.
George Leonard
The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.
George Leonard
Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.
George Leonard
Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.
George Leonard
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.
George Leonard
For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.
George Leonard
Education is... doing anything that changes you.
George Leonard
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
George Leonard
The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.
George Leonard
At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.
George Leonard
At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.
George Leonard
At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.
George Leonard
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.
George Leonard
Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.
George Leonard
If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.
George Leonard
How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.
George Leonard
What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.
George Leonard
Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.
George Leonard