Collected by Ken Ronkowitz
Thirty Quotations
For example...
I have used these for presentations in a variety of ways – from just letting them play while people are getting settled to
focus attention on the front of the room, using them as ice breakers, and using
them as part of the presentation.
Try that yourself as you go through these...
In doing a presentation for a group of thirty K-12 teachers, I simply asked them to watch the presentation as it looped during a break (you can time them in PowerPoint to actually keep track of the break time for you) and pick the one quote that speaks to you. Write it down.
“Quotes ”
James Richardson
The road reaches every place. The short cut only one.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental
illness. Think of your three best friends – if they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown
Herman Melville
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W. C. Fields
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
Buck Henry, 2005
Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
James Richardson
All stones are broken stones.
Saint Augustine
What if you should be mistaken?Well, if I am mistaken, I exist.
Russel Lynes
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Thomas Berger
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
You can't build a reputation on what you're planning to do.
Henry Ford
Anonymous
There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.
Never judge a book by its movie.
J.W. Eagan
James Richardson
Water deepens where it has to wait.
Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Ernest Hemingway
Never confuse movement with action.
Thomas Mann
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Anonymous
How a man plays the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows all of it.
Samuel Butler
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Franklin P. Jones
You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
James Richardson
Who breaks the thread,the one who pulls,
the one who holds on?
Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
Stephen King
Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that’s not true.
I have the heart of a small boy – in a jar on my desk.
Samuel Johnson
One of the disadvantages of wineis that it makes a man mistake
words for thoughts.
Western Proverb
Leap and the net will appear.
Shunryu Suzuki
There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.
Kurt Vonnegut
A reason to write is to say to others that you are not alone.
Now, the thing is...
OK – did you select one?
Here’s your task:All of these quotes are really metaphors
for teaching. Explain how your chosen quote reflects on you as a teacher, your
philosophy or your experiences.
That they were not chosen to be about teaching. They were not chosen to be about any particular subject. I just like them.
BUT, tell a group that they were chosen on that basis and you will be amazed at what meaning people find in them.
You could use them with engineers or nurses and it would work as well.
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