1. Emotional intelligence is a master aptitude, a capacity that profoundly affects all other abilities,either facilitating or interfering with them Daniel Goleman Produced as part of the Partnership Development Schools (PDS) Strategy Phase 3 2008-09 (Lead PDS: The Park Community School. Contact Chris Ley (cley@parkcommunity.devon.sch.uk)

2. Failing is not falling flat on your face, its not getting up Steve Cowley

3. What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us – and when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen Henry Thoreau

4. No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent Eleanor Roosevelt

5. To learn anything fast and effectively you need to see it, hear it, and feel it Tony Stockwell

6. I have not failed 10,000 times, I have successfully found 10,000 ways that don’t work Thomas Edison

7. Whether you believe you can or you can’t, you are probably right Henry Ford

8. Spoon feeding may improve results but it doesn’t improve the chewing muscles Guy Claxton

9. To be successful we must stop concentrating on the end product of learning and look at the process Daniel Goleman

10. Learning accelerates when the whole brain gets involved Dave Meier

11. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be lighted Plutarch