Activating and Engaging

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Activating and Engaging

• Habits of Mind

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Persisting

• Persistent people begin their success where
  others end in failure
• Edward Eggleston
• If at first you dont succeed, try, try, again.

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Managing Impulsivity

• Great things are not done by impulse, but by a
  series of small things brought together.
  Vincent Van Gogh

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Listening with Understanding and Empathy

• Nothing increases the
• respect and gratitude of
• one man for another than
• when he is heard exactly
• and with interest.
• R. Umbach

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Thinking Flexibly

• Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has
  seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
  Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
• Change your thoughts and you change your world.
  Norman Vincent Peale

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Thinking About Thinking(Metacognition)
Thinking aloud. . .Allowed!
When the mind is thinking it is talking to
itself. Plato
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Striving for Accuracy

• Its hard to wring my hands when I am busy
  rolling up my sleeves. Linda
  Geraci
• Good is not good, where better is expected.
  Thomas Fuller

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Questioning and Posing Problems

• It is in the formulation of the problem that
  individuality is
• expressed, that creativity is stimulated, that
  nuances and
• subtleties are discovered. Herbert
  Thelen
• Nothing shapes our journey through life so much
  as the questions we ask.
  
  Greg Levoy

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Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations

• I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from
  experience. Thomas A. Edison
• The main fuel to speed the worlds
• progress is our stock of knowledge, and
• the brake is our lack of imagination. Julian
  Simon

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Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and
Precision

• A word to the wise is not sufficient if it
  doesnt make sense. James Thurber
• This report, by its very length, defends itself
  against the risk of being read. Winston Churchill

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Gathering Data Through All Senses

• If all meanings could be adequately expressed by
  words, the arts of painting and music would not
  exist. John Dewey
• Nothing reaches the intellect before making its
  appearance in the senses. Latin proverb
• All our knowledge has its origins in our
  perceptions. Leonardo da Vinci

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Creating, Imagining, Innovating

• Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has
  seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert
  von Szent-Gyorgyi
• Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing,
  taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes,
  and having fun. Mary Lou Cook

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Responding with Wonderment and Awe

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of
  knowledge. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates
• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the
  one that heralds new discoveries, is not
  'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' Isaac
  Asimov

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Taking Responsible Risks
Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
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Finding Humor

• If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.
• Erma Bombeck

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Thinking Interdependently

• It is good to rub and polish our brain against
  that of others. Michael De Montaigne
• Take care of each other. Share your energies with
  the group. No one must feel alone, cut off, for
  that is when you do not make it.
  Willi Unsoeld (Renowned mountain climber)

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Remaining Open to Continuous Learning

• Every person you meet - and everything you do in
  life is an opportunity to learn something. Tom
  Clancy, Author
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at
  twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays
  young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your
  mind young. Henry Ford