MARIA DIVINA V.

SANTIAGO BS PSYCHOLOGY 3B

MOTIVATIONAL and INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert

Hubbard

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. – B. F. Skinner

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really

matter. – Francis Chan

Too many people are thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, when they

ought to just water the grass they are standing on. – Amar Dave

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget

how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can

accomplish in your lives. – Vince Lombardi

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. – Pythagoras

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than

anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed. – Dave Thomas

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. – Wayne

Dyer

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsh

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot
Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of

achievement. – Golda Meir

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start

focusing on the size of you! – T. Harv Eker

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work,

there are no limits. – Michael Phelps

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.

– Socrates

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to

one another. And, when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives. –

Daniel Pink

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

– Oprah Winfrey

When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts. – Larry

Ellison

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to

pursue luck with a vengeance. – Jill Konrath

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just

one more time. – Thomas Edison

If you can't fly then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever

you do, you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr.

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to

change. – Charles Darwin

If you can dream it, you can do it. – Walter Dream

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at

him. – David Brinkley

I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, ‘Take prudent

risks.’ – Irene Rosenfeld

Make every detail perfect, and limit the number of details to perfect. – Jack Dorsey

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy. – Mike Ditka

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the

really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. – Bruce Lee

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be. –

Lakshmi Mittal
If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing

things can happen. – Marrisa Mayer

You don’t need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate for that matter, to be

successful. You just need a framework and a dream. – Michael Dell

It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical

limits. – E. Langer

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. – Chuck

Palahniuk

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances.

The real mistake is to stop trying. – B. F. Skinner

We are what our thoughts have made us; so, take care about what you think. Words are

secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. – Swami Vivekananda

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Reaction Paper

I. Course Number : SD 2
II. Course Descriptive Title : Personality Development
III. Credit Units : 1 unit
IV. Professor/s : Ruby Grace Pacolor
V. Academic Term & School Year : Second Semester, SY 2017-2018
VI. Submitted by : Santiago, Maria Divina V.

“GURO”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates
and the great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward
The Indie-Advocacy Educational Movie entitled “Guro” tells the story of a strong and single-
minded teacher, Anecita Segovia. It shows how she inspires her students, mostly physically
handicapped and mentally challenged. She is a Special Education teacher who survives the test of
times during the Martial Law period of Marcos’ regime, as she struggles to achieve her mission in
life, while courageously face challenges with the educational system in the country. She receives her
award of being a role model teacher during a school program for her courage and teaching
excellence.
This film clearly depicts of what is an ideal teacher. Being a teacher is not an easy task, what
more if you are teaching mentally challenged students?
The character of Teacher Aning makes me wonder how she was able to surpass and faced
challenges as an educator. She possesses such qualities that is surprisingly amazing. She cares
about her students. She is conscientious about her students’ well-being and education, about their
school as a whole and its standing in the community. She knows her students’ strengths and
weaknesses. She knows when to push them and when to change strategies. She is able to pick up
on differences in her students. This enables her to adjust the methods, to determine the best
strategies for instruction. A teacher who care about her students also invest in them. She supports
her students not only through the best possible instruction. It is unfortunate that some students have
very few supportive adults in their lives. A teacher who cares is often able to make a difference for
students simply by her presence. She is willing to go extra miles for her students. She pushes her
students to achieve their unique potentials. A teacher like this keeps her ears open, and knows her
students very well. She is not afraid to take other path, as long as she is aware that this path is the
right one and truly benefits her students. She fiercely fights for things that supposed to be done.
I believe that all the best qualities found in Teacher Aning are wrapped up in this one-word
mission statement: care. She is more than a teacher to her students. She places her foot under the
shoes of the students. She is nothing but an outstanding, remarkable and an exceptional teacher.