Quotes related to the IBO Profile

Open minded
Above all, remember that the most important thing you can
take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it's
an open mind.
-Gail Rubin Bereny
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
-Phil Jackson
An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a
worthwhile thought in it.
-Anonymous
Where there is an open mind there will always be a
frontier.
-Charles F. Kettering
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All
collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
-Elie Wiesel

Good Communicator
The idea behind it is that good communications are up to
the communicator, understanding the person they are
communicating to as well as themselves,
-John McLaughlin

Anytime you become a better communicator, you're going

to become a more successful individual
-Sheryl Block

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen

twice as much as we speak.
-Epictetus

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding,

intimacy and mutual valuing.
-Rollo May

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves

ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
-Anthony Robbins

Risk Taker
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of
courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and
dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
-John Bradshaw
Do not fear risk. All exploration, all growth is calculated.
Without challenge people cannot reach their higher selves. Only
if we are willing to walk over the edge can we become winners.
-Families of the Challenge Space Shuttle Mission
If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that
means you're not going anywhere.
-John W. Holt
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
-Herodotus
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from
the known to the unknown.
-George Shin
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how
far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the
quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie

Inquirer
The world is but a school of inquiry.
-Michel de Montaigne
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making
discoveries for ones self.
-George Washington Carver
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you
must acquire it.
-Sudie Back
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain
characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
-Samuel Johnson
Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.
-Voltaire
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics
of a vigorous mind.
-Samuel Johnson

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Hosea Ballou

Knowledgeable
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a
living; the other helps you make a life.
- Sandra Carey
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools
because they have to say something.
-Plato
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
-Anton Chekhov
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased
constantly, or it vanishes.
- Peter F. Drucker
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands;
and there is no knowledge that is not power.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all
knowledge.
-Thomas Berger

Principled
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his
principles.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste,
swim with the current.
-Thomas Jefferson

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain

why you did it wrong.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you
change the principles you live by, you will change your world.
-Blaine Lee

Caring
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a
kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the
smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a
life around.
-Leo F. Buscaglia
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there
is a caring, sharing person inside.
-Denis Waitley
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
-Margaret Mead
Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of
community.
-Anthony J. DAngelo

Balanced
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must
keep moving.
-Albert Einstein
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order,
rhythym and harmony.

-Thomas Merton
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think
some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work
every day some.
-Robert Fulghum

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty,

character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
-Zig Ziglar
The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the
hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.
-Wallace D. Wattles

Reflective
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
-Jean Rostand
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company
and reflection must finish him.
-John Locke
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet
reflection will come even more effective action.
-Peter Drucker
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more
unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything

useful.
-Margaret J. Wheatley
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
-Edmund Burke

Thinker
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible,
and achieves the impossible.
-Anonymous
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic
makes heroes."
-Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in
a way that will allow a solution.
-Bertrand Russell
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will
be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-James Allen

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

-Voltaire

And just a reminder

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting
of a fire."
- William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet, 1865-1939