Joe Harris quotes

“The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.”
-- Joe Harris

Source : "Eiffel Tower Celebrates 125th Birthday". Interview With Jeremy Hobson, wwno.org. April 4, 2014.

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“After the occupation of Paris, Hitler visited Paris, which of course was a great jewel for him, and he wanted to go up on the Eiffel Tower and gaze down upon the city of Paris, which he'd conquered. For some reason the elevators mysteriously stopped working that day. Some people say it might have had to do with the French resistance. So he couldn't go up.”
-- Joe Harris

Source : "Eiffel Tower Celebrates 125th Birthday". Interview With Jeremy Hobson, wwno.org. April 4, 2014.

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“Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.”
-- Joe Harris

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“I strive to view my students as unique human beings all of whom come to my classroom with a personal history, cultural perceptions and traditions, goals and aspirations as well as fears and insecurities. By employing the principles of Personalization, I am able to connect with my students in a genuine way in order to build trust, respect and rapport in the classroom.”
-- Joe Harris

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“If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster”

“It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.”

“To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.”

Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 134), 1988.

“What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.”

“The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.”

Source : "Readings in interpersonal & organizational communication" by Richard C. Huseman, (p. 35), 1977.

“Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.”

Source : Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

“Kat didn't know what to say. It's good to see you too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possible you've gotten even hotter? I think I might have missed you?”

“Thanks to Facebook, I never forget the birthdays of people I don't really know.”

“Rarely do we realize that if we simply take time to marvel at life’s gifts and give thanks for them, we activate stunning opportunities to increase their influence in our lives.”

Source : Angeles Arrien (2011). “Living in Gratitude: A Journey That Will Change Your Life”, p.13, Sounds True

“It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.”