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Words of Wisdom From Classical Composers
For this instalment of Words of Wisdom we look at some of the minds behind the greatest classical music ever written.
We place a little extra focus on none other than Ludwig van Beethoven.
Beethoven’s work has been regarded as some of the greatest music ever written.
Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770 – 1827
Beethoven chose not to listen to the work of his contemporaries because he feared it would influence his own writing.
He wrote 9 symphonies throughout his career. All of Beethoven’s symphonies have four movements.
Beethoven was entirely deaf by the time he wrote his 9th Symphony — considered to be one of his greatest works. He conducted the orchestra when he presented the 9th Symphony.
Reportedly, the audience was on its feet applauding, but due to his deafness, Beethoven didn’t realize it until someone turned him around to face the audience.
“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”
-J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
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Words of Wisdom From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr Day just passed through the United States of America. It occurs on the third Monday in January. It has been an official national holiday since January 17th, 2000. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was an incredible figure in history. His words were powerful and full of charisma, he was an outstanding human always advocating in favor of equal and civil rights.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his assassination in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience.
King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 he became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). With the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He also helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. The following year, he and the SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition to poverty and the Vietnam War. He alienated many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled “Beyond Vietnam”. J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of the FBI’s COINTELPRO from 1963 on. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government officials, and on one occasion mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.
In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People’s Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, and imprisoned, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents, persisted for decades after the shooting. Sentenced to 99 years in prison for King’s murder, effectively a life sentence as Ray was 41 at the time of conviction, Ray served 29 years of his sentence and died from hepatitis in 1998 while in prison.
King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971; the holiday was enacted at the federal level by legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington State was also rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011. – Wikipedia
Awards and Recognition
King was awarded at least fifty honorary degrees from colleges and universities. On October 14, 1964, King became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to him for leading nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in the U.S.In 1965, he was awarded the American Liberties Medallion by the American Jewish Committee for his “exceptional advancement of the principles of human liberty.” In his acceptance remarks, King said, “Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.”
In 1957, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. Two years later, he won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his book Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. In 1966, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America awarded King the Margaret Sanger Award for “his courageous resistance to bigotry and his lifelong dedication to the advancement of social justice and human dignity.” Also in 1966, King was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In November 1967 he made a 24-hour trip to the United Kingdom to receive an honorary degree from Newcastle University, being the first African-American to be so honoured by Newcastle. In a moving impromptu acceptance speech, he said
There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face not only in the United States of America but all over the world today. That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war.
In addition to being nominated for three GRAMMY Awards, the civil rights leader posthumously won for Best Spoken Word Recording in 1971 for “Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam”.
In 1977, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was posthumously awarded to King by President Jimmy Carter. The citation read:
Martin Luther King Jr. was the conscience of his generation. He gazed upon the great wall of segregation and saw that the power of love could bring it down. From the pain and exhaustion of his fight to fulfill the promises of our founding fathers for our humblest citizens, he wrung his eloquent statement of his dream for America. He made our nation stronger because he made it better. His dream sustains us yet.
King and his wife were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.
King was second in Gallup’s List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century. In 1963, he was named Time Person of the Year, and in 2000, he was voted sixth in an online “Person of the Century” poll by the same magazine. King placed third in the Greatest American contest conducted by the Discovery Channel and AOL.
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Words of Wisdom – Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office, making her the longest serving First Lady of the United States. Roosevelt served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the “First Lady of the World” in tribute to her human rights achievements.
Though widely respected in her later years, Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady at the time for her outspokenness, particularly her stance on racial issues. She was the first presidential spouse to hold regular press conferences, write a daily newspaper column, write a monthly magazine column, host a weekly radio show, and speak at a national party convention. On a few occasions, she publicly disagreed with her husband’s policies. She launched an experimental community at Arthurdale, West Virginia, for the families of unemployed miners, later widely regarded as a failure. She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees. – Wikipedia
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Words of Wisdom – Shaquille O’Neal
Behold, quotes and words of wisdom from Shaquille O’Neal, or as he would like you to call him “The Big Aristotle.”
Standing and incredible 7 feet tall, weighing 315 pounds and size 22 feet, Shaquille O’Neal was one of the heaviest and most dominant players in the NBA.
His combination of size and skills landed him the biggest contract in NBA history at the time he signed with the Los Angelas Lakers.
The Shaq Attack
Shaquille also was known as “Shaq” helped his teams win three consecutive NBA Championships, Olympic Gold as well as several awards throughout his career as well, such as the ‘NBA Most Valuable Player Award’ and ‘Finals Most Valuable Player Award.’.
Though he was one of NBA’s greatest basketball players he was a notoriously bad free-throw shooter. But as Shaq himself has said, “I never worry about the problem, I worry solution”. Shaquille set his game focusing on trying to get more of his points on the power slam. He averaged more than 23 points per game during his rookie year and made national headlines with two thunderous slam dunks, which broke the supports holding the backboard and basket.
Shaq Goes To Hollywood
As well as being a basketball all-star, Shaquille has recorded five rap albums and also acted in several movies, including Steel and Kazaam. He also voiced himself in the computer-animated blockbuster hit “The Lego Movie.”
Shaq retired from basketball in 2011 but he still loves the game. His giant personality which has led him to be a popular on-screen league analyst on “Inside The NBA” a postgame show for NBA on TNT broadcast.
SOURCES: BIOGRAPHY, THE FAMOUS PEOPLE, KIDZWORLD, BRITTANICA
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Motivational Disney Montage
This inspiring and uplifting montage of motivational quotes montages from Disney movies is great for encouraging all ages.
Featuring wisdom from timeless classics and characters such as Lion King, Winnie the Pooh, Aladdin, Mary Poppins, Toy Story & more.
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“Remember, you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine.” – Snow White
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Words Of Wisdom – Princess Diana
There can truly never be enough said about Princess Diana, a beautiful soul who inspired compassion around the world.
She was the revolutionary Princess who surprised the world by using her royal fame and influence tor to shine a light on people, animals, and causes in need. In fact, Diana was an active supporter of over 100 charities during her lifetime,
Her natural sympathy and oneness with patients were much admired, she helped bring awareness, understanding and destigmatize both aids and leprosy. In 1987, Princess Diana was one of the first well-known celebrities to be photographed with someone battling AIDS. An extremely important moment n changing attitudes to the disease.
Diana famously noted, “HIV does not make people dangerous to know. You can shake their hands and give them a hug. Heaven knows they need it.”
In January 1997, she famously walked through a former minefield during her International Campaign to Ban Landmines and drew attention to the lack of prostheses for victims. After her death, the Ottawa treaty was signed banning the use of anti-personnel landmines. Many agree that her support and role in the campaign played an important role in influencing this decision and she was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
And so with 2019 upon us, may Princess Diana’s compassionate words of wisdom shine on us all.
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Words Of Wisdom – Wayne Gretzky
To celebrate the hockey season we gathered up some words of wisdom from the NHL’s all time leading scorer Wayne Gretzky. Wayne is also well known as “The Great One” is considered by many to be the greatest hockey player of all time. He played much of his NHL career with the Edmonton Oilers, winning four Stanley Cups.
The history-making number 99 also Wayne Gretzky holds or shares 61 NHL records: 40 for the regular season, 15 for the Stanley Cup playoffs and six for the NHL All-Star Game.
He Started Young
This hockey hero got born in Brantford, Ontario Canada in 1961 started out on the ice early. His father Walter built the family an ice rink in their backyard and he started skating at only two years old.
Through practicing and drills his father designed, Wayne became a great hockey player at an early age. At six years old, an already-impressive Gretzky joined a hockey league with many players up to four years older and still excelling at the game.
Gretzky first played professional hockey for Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association at the age of 17. After the WHA went out of business a year later, the Edmonton Oilers moved to the National Hockey League (NHL) and Wayne went with them. The first year he played he was named the NHL MVP, a title he would earn for the next 8 years in a row.
Legendary Career
Throughout his NHL career, he would be traded and play several seasons with the Los Angeles Kings and finished off his career at the New York Rangers. Gretzky’s scoring was legendary. He Left hockey holding 40 regular season records and 15 playoff records. Following his retirement in 1999, Gretzky became the ninth and final player to be immediately ushered into the Hall of Fame and the first in history to have his jersey number retired league-wide.
Though he retired from playing hockey, he has kept busy holding positions as minority owner and Head Coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, Executive Director of 2002’s Gold Medal-winning Canadian Men’s Olympic Hockey team, owner of the popular Toronto bar and restaurant Wayne Gretzky’s, winemaker with the celebrated Wayne Gretzky Estates Winery, and philanthropist with his own Wayne Gretzky Foundation and other charitable causes.
Read some of “The Great One’, Wayne Gretzky’s inspiring words of wisdom below. SOURCES: DUCKSTER, BIOGRAPHY, WWW.GRETZKY.COM
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Words Of Wisdom – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is known as one of the greatest minds in history, it’s no surprise he was also filled with many words of wisdom!
When someone says the word genius, most of us conjure up an image of the iconic Albert Einstein with good reason.
He is one of the world’s most influential scientists and inventors in the world, developing the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics alongside quantum mechanics.
In The Beginning
Born in 1979 in Germany, he didn’t talk until he was four years old, and even then he would repeat words and sentences over and over again until he was seven.
His father gave him a simple pocket compass when he was five, which became his favorite toy and led to him developing a passionate curiosity about mathematics, science, and magnetism.
He had no interest in grammar and he loved playing the violin and the piano. Albert said, “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician as I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music and I see my life in terms of music…
I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.” Einstein struggled with authority and discipline, leading him to be expelled from a school, one headmaster saying “nothing would ever come of him.”
How wrong they were, by sixteen the budding genius would publish his first scientific paper.
The Famous Theories
In 1915 he rocked the world with his Theory of Relativity. In 1919 the theory was proven right by an experiment.
He became famous literally overnight and all of a sudden he got invitations to go all over the place, as well as getting honors from all over the world!
He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”, a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory.
Besides a love of logical things, Einstein also enjoyed nature and music. One of his favorite things to do was to head out onto the lake in a boat and take his notebook with him, to think and write everything down.
He couldn’t swim at all, but he carried on sailing right throughout his life.
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Words Of Wisdom – Neil Young
Born in Canada in 1945, in Toronto Canada, and raised in a small rural town of Omemee, Neil’s boyhood was a complicated one. Suffering from epilepsy, Type 1 diabetes and polio, by 1951 his health had deteriorated so far that he was unable to walk.With time, Neil was able to overcome his ailments, and with his mother’s encouragement he began to nurture an interest in music, learning to play both the ukulele and banjo.
He performed in bands since his teens and later as a soloist in Toronto coffeehouses, Young was both folkie and rocker, so when he arrived in Los Angelas in 1966 he was ready for Buffalo Springfield, the versatile and pioneering group he joined including folk legend Stephen Stills. By 1968 strains in the band dynamics led him to go solo.“Cinnamon Girl” and “Down by the River,” the album climbed up the charts to No. 34, and eventually went gold.
He reunited with former Bandmate Stephen Stills to form another successful band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSN&Y) before decided to go solo again, writing and recording such timeless songs as “Old Man,” “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black),” “Rockin’ in the Free World” and “Heart of Gold”—a No. 1 hit.
Nicknamed the “Godfather of Grunge” for his undeniable influence on that genre, he still has released 40 studio albums, 8 live albums, 3 tribute albums, and 3 soundtrack albums. More than 50 years into his musical career, he continues to record and tour on a regular basis.
Young is also a strong advocate for environmental and disability issues, Having fathered two sons with cerebral palsy, Young helped establish and support the Bridge School in San Francisco to help meet the needs of those challenged by the disease. As well he co-founded the Benefit for Farm Aid and the Bridge School Benefit Concerts. BIOGGRAPHY ONLINE, BRITTANICA, WIKIPEDIA
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Words Of Wisdom – Stan Lee
Beloved comic book icon Stan Lee recently passed away leaving us with a legacy of timeless superheroes including Spiderman and the Fantastic Four, adored by generations of fans. In honor of this humble and creative human we dedicate this Words of Wisdom to him.
Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922, in New York City to Romanian immigrants Celia and Jack Lieber. With part of his childhood spent during the Great Depression, Lieber and his younger brother, Larry, watched his parents struggle to make ends meet for the family.
He fell in love with the art of writing young and in his youth he worked such part-time jobs as writing obituaries for a news services and press releases for the National Tuberculosis Centre. At fifteen, Lee entered a high school essay competition sponsored by the New York Herald Tribune. Lee claims to have won the prize for three straight weeks, goading the newspaper to write him and ask him to let someone else win. The paper suggested he look into writing professionally, which Lee claims “probably changed my life.”
In 1930 after graduating from high school at age 16, Lieber was hired as an editorial assistant for Timely Comics, and in 1942 he was promoted to editor. Lieber, who later shortened his name to “Lee” as a writer. Lee entered the United States Army in early 1942 and served within the US as a member of the Signal Corps, repairing telegraph poles and other communications equipment. He was later transferred to the Training Film Division, where he worked writing manuals, training films, slogans, and occasionally cartooning. His military classification, he says, was “playwright”; he adds that only nine men in the U.S. Army were given that title
In the early ’60s, Lee was called upon by his boss to create a series for Marvel Comics(Timely’s new name) that could compete with rival DC Comics’ hit title Justice League of America. following the encouragement of his wife, Joan, Lee did away with some of the usual superhero conventions. Ge pioneered a more naturalistic approach to writing superhero comics.
With artist and co-creator Jack Kirby, the Fantastic Four was born in 1961. After a massive success, a slew of new characters soon sprung from Lee and fellow Marvel cohorts Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, including superheroes, including the Hulk, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Daredevil and the X-Men. Lee later worked in a number of comic-related business and multimedia ventures.
Lee was particularly known for his dynamism with copy and for imbuing his characters with a sense of humanity, tackling real-world issues like bigotry and drug use, which would influence comics for decades. An outgoing, humorous showman, he also developed a number of slogans as part of his shtick, including a Latin-derived call to rise, “Excelsior!”
Marvel comics became a highly popular franchise, and Stan Lee was promoted to editorial director and publisher in 1972. He later moved to the West Coast to be involved in Marvel’s film ventures and eventually became chairman emeritus.
Lee was involved in a variety of multimedia projects while also serving as an ambassador for Marvel, even though he has filed lawsuits against the company and been the subject of debate over appropriate compensation for comic creators. The writer has seen Marvel develop into an entity that has inspired blockbuster film entertainment like the Iron Man, X-Men, Thor and The Avengers franchises.
In 2001 received a Medal of Arts honour from President George W. Bush and launched the History Channel show Stan Lee’s Superhumans, a series that looked at people with remarkable skills and abilities. In 2008 he was awarded a National Medal of Arts.
2012 saw more new ventures. Lee co-wrote a graphic novel, Romeo and Juliet: The War, which landed on The New York Times‘ best-seller list and launched a YouTube channel, Stan Lee’s World of Heroes, which features comic, comedy and sci-fi content. The world said goodbye to superhero Stan Lee this year, a human who inspired generations of young and old changed the comic world. SOURCE BIOGRAPHY, WIKIPEDIA, BRITTANICA
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Words Of Wisdom Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres often simply known as “Ellen” is a compassionate comedian turned actress, then daytime talk show host that has made millions laugh over her successful career, due in part to her big break on the legendary Johnny Carson Show. Beyond comedy and her personal life, Ellen is also respected for her caring nature and the promotion of issues and people who might otherwise be forgotten.
Before she found her calling in comedy, Ellen worked a variety of odd jobs including clerical work for a law firm, working retail, waiting tables, house painting, bartending, and shucking oysters. She even sold Hoover vacuum cleaners door-to-door, a job she joked about with Willie Nelson — also a former door-to-door vacuum salesman — on her show.
She got her start in comedy at Clyde’s Comedy Club. At the time, it was the only comedy club in New Orleans and she graduated from comic to emcee. This led to more shows throughout the South and soon the country.
Ellen toured the states, honing her comedic timing and craft. In 1982, she was selected by Showtime as “America’s Funniest Person.” This led to a series of cable and late-night television appearances, including a shot on “The Tonight Show” in 1986. Ellen did clerical work for a law firm, which was followed by a string of jobs: working retail, waiting tables, house painting, bartending, and shucking oysters. She even sold Hoover vacuum cleaners door-to-door, a job she joked about with Willie Nelson — also a former door-to-door vacuum salesman — on her show.
She found her footing in comedy in a small club in her hometown Louisiana in her early twenties that led to more shows throughout the South and soon the country. She toured the states, honing her comedic timing and craft and In 1982, she was selected by Showtime as “America’s Funniest Person.” This led to a series of cable and late-night television appearances, including a shot on “The Tonight Show” in 1986. The first was her appearance on “The Tonight Show” in 1986. After her set, Johnny Carson invited her to sit next to him. This was a traditional signal to both comedians and the entertainment industry that Johnny thought this person was something special. Ellen was the first female comedian to be invited over and receive the honor.
She transitioned from comedian to sitcom star with the success of “Ellen.” The quirky show, based on her stand-up comedy. Her show continues to bring smiles to all ages in its 13th season and has received numerous awards, including multiple Emmy’s for “Outstanding Talk Show.”
On top of being a comedian, television host, actress, writer, producer, and LGBT activist, DeGeneres launched the eleveneleven record label designed to promote talented musical acts that may otherwise be overlooked by larger labels. She also started her own production company, A Very Good Production and launched the brand, ED Ellen DeGeneres, She has won 30 Emmys, 20 People’s Choice Awards (more than any other person, and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. In 2016 DeGeneres was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in by President Barack Obama. SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA, ELLEN TUBE, THOUGHT & CO
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Words Of Wisdom – Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and record producer. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films. His works include The Lion King, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Interstellar, Gladiator, Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy.
Although he is considered music genius having composed more than 150 film soundtracks, he had only two weeks of formal music education, having piano lessons as a child, as he disliked the discipline of formal lessons. “My father died when I was just a child, and I escaped somehow into the music and music has been my best friend”, he said in an interview with the German television station ZDF in 2006.
Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks studios and works with other composers through the company that he founded, Remote Control Productions, formerly known as Media Ventures. His studio in Santa Monica, California has an extensive range of computer equipment and keyboards, allowing demo versions of film scores to be created quickly.
Zimmer’s works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. He has received four Grammy Awards, three Classical BRIT Awards, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award. He was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph. SOURCE WIKIPEDIA
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Inspiring Quotes From Star Wars
If you’re a huge Star Wars fan or know a little one who is a big Star Wars fan, enlighten them with some inspiring quotes from Star Wars!
This colorful chart is filled with wise advice from iconic Star Wars figures such as Yoda.
“Always pass on what you have learned.” – Yoda
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Words of Wisdom- Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was an incredible human and American aviator who set many flying records and championed the advancement of women in aviation.
She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland during a flight to circumnavigate the globe. And just for fun she went on design clothes and to become a faculty consultant at Purdue University.
Born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897 she defied traditional gender roles from a young age. Earhart played basketball, took an auto repair course and briefly attended college. During World War I, she served as a Red Cross nurse’s aid in Toronto, Canada. Earhart began to spend time watching pilots in the Royal Flying Corps train at a local airfield while in Toronto.
She started flying lessons with female flight instructor Neta Snook in 1921 and later that year, she purchased her first airplane, a secondhand Kinner Airster. She nicknamed the yellow airplane “the Canary.” Her first record came in 1922 when she became the first woman to fly solo above 14,000 feet. Earhart consistently worked to promote opportunities for women in aviation
In 1937, Earhart attempted to fly around the world, and her plane disappeared that year. Her legacy continues to inspire pilots of all genders today, and her bravery proved that women (and men) can do whatever they set their minds to. Earhart’s story is still taught to schoolchildren today. SOURCE REFINERY29, WIKIPEDIA, HISTORY
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Words Of Wisdom – Eric Carle
Eric Carle is beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated picture books for very young children.
His best-known work, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” has eaten its way into the hearts of literally millions of children all over the world and has been translated into 64 languages and sold over 46 million copies.
Since it’s publishing in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have sold around the world.
Carle was born in Syracuse, New York, Carle moved to his father’s native Stuttgart when he was 6 years old, and spent his formative years in Nazi Germany. “Hitler dictated not only politics,” Carle tells Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon, “he also dictated art.”Under the Third Reich, the only acceptable art was realistic and didactic, removed from the so-called “degenerate” trends of abstraction and Modernism.
But, in an act of resistance, Carle’s high school art teacher invited the young creative to his home to show him illegal reproductions of Cubist, Surrealist, and Impressionist art. Carle can’t recall exactly what he saw, but he thinks that’s where he saw expressionist Franz Marc’s Blue Horse. That visit and those reproductions made a deep impression on me,” he says. Marc’s Blue Horse even makes an appearance in the back of Carle’s new book.
It’s an iconic image, he says, regularly shown as a symbol of expressionism. Carle hopes blue horses show his young readers that in art, there is no wrong color.
“One must not stay within the lines,” he says. The point is to just enjoy color — but also to be surprised. Seeing a green lion or a polka-dotted donkey is still a bit of a shock, he says. “So in a small way, I repeat the shock I went through, I think. Of course, I’m not too sure it will work that way.”
Eager to return to the United States, Carle began working as a graphic designer for the New York Times in 1952, before being drafted into the army during the Korean War.
About a decade later, Carle’s career took a turn. He designed a poster of a red lobster, an advertisement for a pharmaceutical company, which caught the attention of children’s author Bill Martin Jr. The writer commissioned him to illustrate “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? “ (1967), and the rest is history.
From then on, Carle wrote and illustrated his own bedtime tales, including “1, 2, 3 to the Zoo” (1968) and the fan favorite, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” (1969).
Carle has maintained an instantly recognizable style of college. He begins by painting white tissue paper with acrylic paint, and stores these swatches in color-coded drawers in his studio. He then cuts them to shape and layers the pieces to create grouchy ladybugs, purple cats, and beautiful butterflies. Carle loves that his signature technique is accessible. “In fact, some children have said to me, ‘Oh, I can do that,’” Carle said. “I consider that the highest compliment.”
In 2002, Carle and his wife opened the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, which presents exhibitions on Beatrix Potter, E. H. Shepard, Ludwig Bemelmans, and Quentin Blake, among others. The world lost a very talented & inspiring human when he passed in 2021.
“We have eyes, and we’re looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.” Eric Carle
His legacy will live on in his wonderful books. Watch a neat look at the amazing Eric Carle in the video below!
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Words Of Wisdom – Bob Ross
Bob Ross, the painter, and television personality was an endearing, soothing, and extremely prolific artist who purportedly completed 30,000 paintings during his lifetime. What made this especially likable and talented painter truly different is that he truly believed that all of us could also be artists.
Ross’s gentle voice and warm demeanor captured the hearts of humans of all ages and artists of all levels worldwide. Bob spent 20 years in the United States Air Force and retired with the rank of master sergeant before transitioning into the happy painter we know today. He is quoted as saying “after yelling so much in the Air Force; he never wanted to yell at anyone again.”
As Robert Frost famously said “Way leads unto Way” and the Alaskan Mountains where he was stationed became iconic features in his paintings. While stationed there Ross indulged his creative side by painting his landscapes onto golden pans, which he sold for $25 each. Today, they can fetch as much as $7500 on eBay.
One of Bob Ross’s biggest influences was a German painter named Bill Alexander who hosted an art instruction show on PBS “The Magic of Oil Painting. He shared his “wet-on-wet” oil painting technique. Ross ended up studying under Alexander, who became his mentor in the early 1980s, and as Alexander was preparing to retire, he asked Ross to take over teaching his painting classes. Ross agreed and set out to tour the country on his own in a motor home, traveling and teaching people.
One of his students Annette Kowalski recognized his gentle and powerful positivity while taking a five-day instructional course with Ross in 1982. She became Ross’s manager, helping him broker the deal for The Joy of Painting television show with PBS. Despite its incredible popularity Bob Ross did the series for free, while his income came from Bob Ross Inc. which sold art supplies and how-to videotapes, taught classes, and even had a troupe of traveling art instructors who roamed the world teaching painting.
It’s been nearly 25 years since the sincere, gentle and very talented Bob Ross passed. His encouraging artistic mentor style continues to spread smiles and inspiration to artists of all ages. Below is just a few of some of his many magical quotes and a classic clip from his show. SOURCES MENTAL FLOSS, WIKIPEDIA & BIOGRAPHY
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Charlie Chaplin – Words Of Wisdom
Charlie Chaplin remains one of the world’s most influential stars, a self-professed “clown”.
Best known for his comedy which was so passionate and potent.
Charlie Chaplin had a gift he nurtured that allowed him to bring smiles and laughter during the Depression.
What he is less known for is his compassion. Charlie was born into poverty and adversity which he used as fuel to make people smile.
Below is his brief biography on how he came to be the world’s first famous clown and quotes highlighting his timeless wisdom. His inspiring nature led him seemed to focus on happiness and kindness.
Charlie was born Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE on April 16th, 1889 in London.
Sadly he was born into poverty and hardship.
He was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine. His mother struggled financially when his father was absent.
When he was just 14, sadly his mother was committed to a mental asylum.
He began performing at an early age, touring music halls and later on working as a stage actor and comedian.
At 19, he was signed to the prestigious Fred Karno company, which took him to America where began appearing in 1914 for Keystone Studios.
It was there he created his iconic “The Tramp” persona which led him to soar in popularity.
By 1918, he was one of the best-known figures in the film industry and became a worldwide icon.
From an early stage, Chaplin began to direct his own films from an early stage and continued to hone his craft throughout his life.
His remarkable career would span more than 75 years until a year before his death in 1977.
Below clip of an inspiring Charlie Chaplin speech from The Great Dictator that remains one of the most powerful speeches of all time.
Spread the Chaplin compassion!
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Inspirational Quotes From Fiction Books
Did you have a character from a book you looked up to as a child?
This illustrated chart highlights inspiring quotes from fiction books.
Tidbits of wisdom from timeless literature such as The Outsiders, A Wrinkle In Time, and the magical series Harry Potter.
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. …” -Dumbledore
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Inspiring Children’s Book Quotes
Do you remember being encouraged by words of wisdom from a favorite book as a child?
This sweet chart highlights inspiring quotes from children’s books.
Children’s books often offer vast amounts of wisdom and quotes to live by that inspire love, friendship, happiness, dreams, kindness, and determination.
This collection of inspiring quotes from children’s books offers tidbits of wisdom.
As well as quotes from both classic authors such as Dr.Seuss as well as more modern wisdom from the amazing J.K. Rowlings.
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32 Life Lessons From Cute Fictional Creatures
Do you remember being inspired by an adorable, animated character in a movie?
Well, this sweet chart holds 32 life lessons from cute fictional creatures!
These uplifting lessons learned from fictional characters will give you that warm fuzzy feeling.
There is something so enjoyable about these life tidbits of wisdom on friendship, kindness, teamwork, and imagination!
A great way to encourage confidence in all ages!
“Don’t just fly, soar.” —Dumbo,
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As well as neat little biographies and quotes from children’s authors & cartoonists such as Beatrix Potter -Words Of Wisdom.
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