Collected by Ken Ronkowitz

Thirty Quotations

Volume 2

I sometimes use these before presentations - letting them play while people are getting settled to focus attention on the front of the room, using them as ice breakers, or as part of the presentation. In doing a presentation for a group of teachers, I asked them to watch the presentation as it looped during a break (I set the timing in PowerPoint to advance & give me 15 minutes) and pick one quote to write down that hit them. Try it yourself now...

Edward Lorenz

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause

a hurricane in another.

Phillip K. Dick

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,

doesn’t go away.

T.S. Eliot

Poetry is the way we’d all speak if we could.

Louis Pasteur

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Zen saying

The snowflakes fall,each in their proper place.

Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to you:

It is what you do with what happens to you.

James Dean

Dream as if you’ll live forever.Live as if you’ll die today.

Diogenes

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams, than about things we see

when we are awake.

Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Steven Wright

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns;

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Hubert Miller

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough in the same place,

they will eventually produce a callus. That is what is called maturity.

William Penn

Time is what we want most, but alas! We use worst.

Pope John XXIII

If God created shadows, it was to emphasize the light.

Sylvia Robinson

Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes

it's letting go.

Anonymous

Nostalgia is recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

J.D. Yeck

The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.

Alexander Woollcott

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things that we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Samuel Goldwyn

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Mark Twain

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist except an old optimist.

G. Verity

Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it.

Anonymous

Blaming your faults on your nature, does not change the nature of your faults.

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.

Lao Tzu

We stumble over pebbles, not mountains.

Anonymous

Some people have to be out on a limb before they'll turn over a new leaf.

Shedd

A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are for.

William Safire

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy?

I don't know and I don't care.

Sidney J. Harris

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the

things we did not do that is inconsolable.

G. M. Trevelyan

Education has produced a vast population able to read, but unable to distinguish

what is worth reading.

Franklin P. Jones

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget

something.