QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. What do you think about quotes? Are they helpful to you and in what way?
2. Are there any quotes that you have memorized and that you particularly like?
TASK
a) Translate these quotes into English and discuss their meaning and how to apply them in everyday life.
b) Each of you in the group can rate three quotes with 3, 2 or 1 points. After everyone has rated quotes, see which three got the most points.
Marilyn Monroe, American actress (1926-1962):
"A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none."
Bruce Lee, Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor (1940-1973):
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it."
Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist (1879-1955)
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Mark Twain, American writer (1835-1910)
"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president (1882-1945)
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (1854-1900)
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and make a trail."