Weekly Quotations/Writing Prompts

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Semester 2

Semester 1

If you were absent, you will find the writing prompt you missed here. You must make up the work you missed in class.

Week 1
  1. Closer to Free, the Bodeans
  2. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
Week 2
  1. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Teresa
  2. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers
Week 3
  1. "We must become the change we want to see." Gandhi
  2. "We all have wings, but some of us don't know why." INXS
Week 4
  1. "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
  2. "Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head."
    Garrison Keillor
Week 5

  1. "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." Japanese proverb
  2. "Nothing's so loud as hearing when we lie." Toad the Wet Sprocket
Week 6
  1. "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." Hank Aaron
  2. You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. Winston Churchill
Week 7
  1. "I fear more harm from everybody thinking alike that from some people thinking otherwise." Charles G. Bolte
  2. Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov
Week 8
  1.  "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Winston Churchill
  2.  Twisted Logic by Coldplay
Week 9
  1. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
  2. I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. George Bernard Shaw
Week 10

  1. "You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy." Eric Hoffer
  2. Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht

Week 11

 

  1. "The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price." Vince Lombardi
  2. Your Life is Now by John Mellencamp
Week 12
  1. If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." Albert Einstein
  2. "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." E. B. White
Week 13
  1. "He who limps is still walking." Stanislaw J. Lec
  2. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." Ellen Hubbard
Week 14

 

  1. "Never mistake motion for action." Ernest Hemingway
  2. "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." Buckminster Fuller
Week 15

  1. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln
  2. The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. Kahlil Gibran
Week 16
  1. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein
  2. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. Margaret Chase Smith
Week 17 Work on semester projects
Week 18

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Semester 2

This list will be more complete as the semester continues. If you were absent, you will find the writing prompt you missed here. You must make up the work you missed in class.

Week 1
  1. I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do. Christopher Reeve
Week 2
  1. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr.
Week 3
  1. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard
  2. They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol
Week 4
  1. If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. Charles Kettering
  2. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine De Saint Exupery
Week 5

  1. Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. Eleanor Roosevelt
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Week 6
  1. A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. Margaret Wright Edelman
  2. Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi
Week 7
  1. I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. Michel de Montaigne
  2. Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. Erma Bombeck
Week 8
  1. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Don Migel Ruiz
  2. The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl S. Buck
Week 9
  1. Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. Janwillem van de Wetering
  2. One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. Chinese Proverb
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Week 11
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  2. You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
Week 12
  1. Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. Thornton Wilder
Week 13
  1. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
  2. A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? Jane Wagner
Week 14
  1. We need [people] who can dream of things that never were. John F. Kennedy
  2. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. Edward R. Murrow
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