YHKCC Learner Profile by Andrew Higgins https://padlet.com/andrew_j_higgins/YHKCC_Learner_Profile Intellectual character is ... en-us 2016-11-16 08:02:12 UTC 2025-10-12 09:31:41 UTC hello@padlet.com #14 Collaboration andrew_j_higgins https://padlet.com/andrew_j_higgins/YHKCC_Learner_Profile/wish/137987119 The capacity to cooperate and work productively with other people, to pool talents and build collective solutions; to know when to seek help from and when to support other people; to judge effectively when to speak up and when to compromise.
“No one – not rock stars, not athletes, not software billionaires and not even geniuses – ever makes it alone” – Malcom Gladwell
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“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why” – Bernard Baruch






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“Most people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve” – Mary Kay Ash
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“Empathic means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold in order to enter the other’s world without prejudice; a complex, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being” – Carl Rogers



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“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought”  – J F Kennedy
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“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one we have” – Emilie Chartier



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“All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, even to the minutest detail” – Elbert Hubbard

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“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there” – Will Rogers




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“Creativity is now as important in education as literacy – and we should treat it with the same status” – Sir Ken Robinson
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“It’s not that I’m so smart, I just stay with problems longer” – Einstein

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“The only people who never fail are those who never try” – Ilka Chase



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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time” – George Bernard Shaw

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“Do one thing every day that scares you” – Eleanor Roosevelt





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“If you think you can or you think you can’t you’re probably right” – Henry Ford

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