Instead of crying over spilt milk, go milk another cow.
-Anonymous
Category: “Ideas won’t keep…”
“Ideas won’t keep…” #32
Don’t compete when you can’t-let out and, unless circumstances change profoundly, stay out.
-Robert Heller
You must do the same thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Here are two opposing points of view. What does each one mean? Which do you think is wiser? Explain your answer, making up examples to prove your point.
“Ideas won’t keep…” #33
Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.
-Chinese proverb
Don’t fish for strawberries at the bottom of the sea.
Anonymous
Whether we want love, a kind word, an honest answer, help, or even a special tool, we should look for it in likely places. If we look in unlikely places, we waste a lot of time and just end up, hurt and disappointed, without finding what we want.
Have you ever “climbed a tree to look for fish”? What did you learn? Where will you look next time?
“Ideas won’t keep…” #34
If you miss seven balls out of ten, you’re battling three hundred, and that’s good enough for the Hall of Fame. You can’t score if you keep the bat on your shoulder.
-Walter B. Wriston
“Ideas won’t keep…” #35
Personality is to a person what perfume is to a flower.
-Charles M. Schwab
“Ideas won’t keep…” #36
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.
-Olive Schreiner
Blow not against the hurricane.
-Proverb
“Ideas won’t keep…” #37
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
-Racheal Carson
A new school. A new friend. A new home. A new stepparent or family. Any new start can be difficult. It’s a CHANGE, and change makes everything uncertain for a while. It gets easier as you keep going, though, and the new thing becomes more familiar.
Write about what’s new in your life of the life of someone you know. What still seems uncertain?
“Ideas won’t keep…” #38
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analze our own bad points.
-Francoise Sagan
“Ideas won’t keep…” #39
If you treat every situation as a life-and-death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith quoted by Fran Tarkenton
“Ideas won’t keep…” #40
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive, and irrational-but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
-Judith Viorst
To some people, certain practices have real power. But to most of us, superstitions are more like habits or family customs. Tell about a superstition, real or playful. Why do some people believe in superstitions?