Assignment:
1. Go to www.quoteland.com
2. Search for a quotation using the search criteria they give you.
3. Find a quotation that you identify with on an ethical, intellectual, moral, or practical level.
4. Type the quotation and author at the top.
5. Analyze what you think the author of the quotation is trying convey through it.
6. Why do you identify with this quotation? Give examples of you have lived your life similar to the advice or wisdom within the quotation.
16 comments:
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz is saying if you have the right attitude and you are motivated the right way, you then have the ability to do anything, nothing is impossible. I chose this quote because this is what my mother always tells me, and I try to instill that principle in me.
"We all lose friends.. we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home when you leave the light on." -Amy Marie Waltz
She means that we go through different friends through the years, but they don't have to be totally gone. If we don't give up, those friendships will have their times again. I can relate because my best friend moved away almost three years ago, but we are still very close. I've had friends who changed through the years, but there are still times where we both come around. Even if just for one night, for that moment, all is as it once was.
"It is only the first step that is difficult"- Marie DeVichy
She is saying that beginning something is always the hardest part of whatever it is that you do. I chose this quote because I have a hard time beginning new things and this assures me that the apprehension that I have is normal and it is something that a lot of people deal with. This gives me the belief to get over this fear and I believe this will help me in the future.
"The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now" - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To me, this quote is saying you can't be happy with someone else if you don't focus on the present. Remembering only what used to be, or what will come in the future will only tear a relationship apart. I chose this quote because i have a problem with obsessing over things that i have done or how my future will turn out. It is good to remember and to be prepared for your future, but you need to live for the present before it becomes your past and you can't get it back.
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
He is saying that all difficult things are only as challenging or as hard as you let them be. The mind limits our body's ability to accomplish a task. If you can focus and get past the mind telling you you are tired or weak your body will be able to complete the task at hand. I personally chose this quote because I have been in situations like this not only because of sports but also when I am challenged academically. I've always been able to get through challenges if I can convince my mind I am not tired and that I can comprehend concepts that don't come to me right away.
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Muhammad Ali
Ali is saying that friendship is something that is not learned but that you must learn it to proceed in life. I chose this quote because I find it true, I mean, I can say that in my life I would be nothing without my friends.
"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES."
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this may not be a single person saying this but it really spoke to me. all my life, all my childhood i have been told no. even when my brothers were told yes i was always told no. for many reasons, your too young, it's your bed time, you have school tomorrow, because i said so, he earned it, you gotta watch the house, it's your turn for chores, and i know probably everyone has heard some of these in there life but I'm sick of it! every time I've heard no it's like a road block in my head saying well now you cant. all i want to do now is strap some C4 to that road block and smash it open for my own path....MY own life.
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What Ralph Waldo Emerson is saying is that, don't fret about how the day went because it's over and you can't go back and fix it. Tomorrow is a different day full of new events and you should start the day off with a happy attitude to help you make the most out of the day. This qoute applies to me because a lot of day I worry about how the day went and not focusing on how I could fix whatever happened that day for tomorrow.
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
-William Blake
He is saying that to be successful in life you should have the help of others. We always need the help of our friends, so, that's why chose this quote.
"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
-Swedish Proverb
This quote is telling how to live your life. It relays to me because this is how i should live my life.
Drew Davis
"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."
-Carl Gustav Jung
Jung is saying that everyone has talents but it is the way you use your talents. You always want to use your talents in a positive way. This quote reminds me to always use my talents towards the greater good and not in a negative way. It also reminds me to always use my talents and don't waste them. Give back what has been given to you.
Liz Watson
"You must be the change you want to see in the world"
--Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi's own straight forward quotation is representative of his entire life. Living in his homeland where British hegemony had been in place for more than two centuries, Gandhi could've complained about his station in life and done nothing about it; however, he decided to act starting a bloodless revolution of pacificism and civil disobedience. I used to be much more apathetic about the social, economic, and political injustices around me, but I had an awakening in November of 2002 that made me realize that individuals can make changes, however small, in their communities for the better. I am in the middle of embarking on a journey that I believe will allow me to "make a difference" on a global scale. We all have voice and with it we can change the world.
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
-Pierre de Coubertin
He is saying that the most important thing you can do is try hard. I can relate to this because that is what life is all about. You might not make the most money or have a big house, but you can be satisfied with yourself if you gave it your best.
Brian Barelmann
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" Theodore Roosevelt.
This quote says that you have to take things the way they are and make the best of them which applies to my life because you almost never get exactly what you want in life so you have to make the best of things that you have
Brock Reynoldson
"Just be yourself, everybody else is already taken." - Unknown
I like this quote because so many people try to be like everybody else. So many people are so concerned about what others will say about what they look like or what they wear. They are afraid to be themselves that they turn into someone they are not. There is only one you. Do you what you like not because others like it, but because you like it. Wear something you want to wear because you like it, not because others think it's cool. Be who you want to be.
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4. Model: It was dark/ when I got up/ in the morning/, frosty when I followed my breath/ to school.
--Julia Alvarez, Snow
a. a. It was early/ when the bus came by/ from school/, late when it returned the children/ to their homes.
5. Model: She wore her coarse, straight hair/, which was slightly streaked with gray/, in a long braided rope/ across the top of her head.
--Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Nowi
a. a. The played the grueling, championship matches/, which were completely unpredictable/ by forecasters, with an amazing energy/ from the weakest player to the strongest.
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