30 Quotations Volume 2

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Collected by Ken Ronkowitz Thirty Quotations Volume 2

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A second set of 30 quotations that can be used when doing presentations or in the classroom.

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Collected by Ken Ronkowitz

Thirty Quotations

Volume 2

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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...

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Edward Lorenz

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

a hurricane in another.

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Phillip K. Dick

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

doesn’t go away.

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T.S. Eliot

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

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Louis Pasteur

Chance favors the prepared mind.

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Zen saying

The snowflakes fall,each in their proper place.

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Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to you:

It is what you do with what happens to you.

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James Dean

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

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Diogenes

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

when we are awake.

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Abraham Lincoln

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

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Steven Wright

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns;

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

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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.

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William Penn

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

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Pope John XXIII

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

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Sylvia Robinson

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

it's letting go.

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Anonymous

Nostalgia is recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

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J.D. Yeck

The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.

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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.

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Oscar Wilde

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

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Samuel Goldwyn

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

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Mark Twain

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

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G. Verity

Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it.

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Anonymous

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

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Albert Einstein

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

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Lao Tzu

We stumble over pebbles, not mountains.

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Anonymous

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

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Shedd

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

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William Safire

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy?

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

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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.

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G. M. Trevelyan

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

what is worth reading.

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Franklin P. Jones

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

something.