This document provides encouragement for cultivating curiosity, imagination, and creativity in gifted students. It discusses the importance of questioning, exploring new ideas, taking risks and failing, and being open to new perspectives. Quotes emphasize pursuing interests through hands-on experiences, encouraging students' natural curiosity, and guiding students rather than directly teaching them. The goal is for students to develop lifelong curiosity and passion for learning.
65. And one thing it
takes to accomplish
something is
courage.
When you're curious, you
find lots of interesting
things to do.
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67. FAILUREisn’t a necessary evil.
In FACT, it isn’t EVIL at all.
It is a NECESSARY
consequence of doing
something NEW.
- Ed Catmull
70. Get great creative people.
Bet big on them.
Give them enormous leeway and support.
Provide them with an environment in
which they can get honest
feedback from everyone.
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71. candor
n. the state or quality of being
frank, open, and sincere in
speech or expression
76. “The attempt to avoid failure
makes failure more likely.
Trying to avoid
failure by
out-thinking it
dooms you
to fail.”
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- Ed Catmull
92. They are willing to go
outside their comfort zone
in the interest of
expanding their horizons
and gaining new
perspectives.”
Josh Gorin
93. “Constantly ask questions,
learn how things work,
try new and exciting things,
and you’ll build up a strong
base of experiences and
an ongoing curiosity that
will serve you well at WDI
and in life.” Josh Gorin
94. Around here we don’t look
backwards for very long…
We keep moving forward,
opening up new doors and
doing new things because we’re
curious, and curiosity keeps
leading us down new paths.