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Use these quotations in a number of ways:
· Post them on walls at meetings
· Pass them out on index cards at meetings and have people introduce themselves by reading and discussing theirs.
· Take time out at meetings and pick one randomly and discuss its meaning to your group and your situation.
· Give people several quotations to think about as homework.
· Have people draw a picture of the quotation.
· Use as a warm-up by having people rotate around the room with their quotation attached to their body to provide discussion material.
· Pick a quotation as a group motto.
· Ask if others have favorite quotations.
· Make up a quotation that is customized for your group.
· Make up silly quotations or pick some and make them silly.
1. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
2. You are only young once - but you can be immature all your life.
3. Don't be afraid to take a big step if it's needed. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
4. Life is like being on a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog the scenery never changes.
5. A diamond is just a piece of coal that stuck to the job.
6. If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one then check your pulse - you may be dead.
7. Once you have taken the impossible into your calculations, its possibilities become potentially limitless.
8. You can't always depend on expert opinion. A turkey, if you ask the turkey, should be stuffed with grasshoppers, grit and worms.
9. The road to success is always under construction.
10. Do not take life too seriously - you will never get out of it alive.
11. To know what to ask is already to know half. (Aristotle)
12. Carve a person's faults in sand, their accomplishments in stone.
13. If the roof doesn't leak, the architect hasn't been creative enough. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
14. Once a new technology runs over you, you are not part of the steamroller; you are part of the road.
15. It’s better to build a fence at the top of the cliff than a hospital at the bottom. (Ann Landers)
16. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. (Alan Kay)
17. You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. (Henry Ford)
18. Verbal diarrhea is created by people who make vowel movements consonantly.
19. If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to anything. (Fred Menger)
20. Optimists see an opportunity in every problem. Pessimists see a problem in every opportunity.
21. Seek simplicity - then distrust it. (Alfred North Whitehead)
22. Everywhere you trip is where the treasure lies. (Warren Bennis)
23. If we think more about failing at what we are doing than about doing it, we will not succeed. (Warren Bennis)
24. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein)
25. The winner sees a green near every sand trap. The loser sees a sand trap near every green.