I hope that my name will be remembered for the good, and I will do my best to stand out in the positive way.
2) Tuesday, October 4th
"I say bombard people. That's the only real way you'll get stuff done." Rob Larson stated this during a class discussion about making things easy. Rob said that in the real world, working for a real boss, it's all about making it easy for them. I totally agree with all of this. It is so important to please and impress the people or person you are working for. Making things easy and simple for them is going to make them happy. This is a very good lesson to learn and master before stepping out into the real world.
3) Thursday, October 13th
This is a quote Rob Larson said in class one day. It is not meant as an insulting statement, it was meant more sentimentally, but it is very funny when taken out of context. "I can't teach you to be special; you are already special." I'm not going to describe the context for which this was taken, because personally, I find it more am musing when standing alone.
4) Tuesday, October 25th
"I'm in a very strange mood today, even for me." Even though this isn't a very original quote or even that unusual, I still find it interesting. This quote implies that you know what you are typically like on a day to day basis. I don't believe that you know exactly what you are like every day. It is like we talked about in class, there are 4 sections, and some of those are what you think people think. You only think you know what you are like every day, so it is odd to say that you can notice you are strange.
5) Tuesday, October 25th
"They call it public speaking, but they should call it public listening." I think this is an awesome quote. You talked about how we spend about 95% of our class time listening rather than talking, which is absolutely true. Taking a public listening class would be much less intimidating than taking a speaking class.
6) Tuesday, October 25th
"It's not enough to watch somebody fall off a motorcycle, sometimes you just need to fall off yourself." This is a really great quote for me, and especially for little kids. The best way to learn something is by doing it yourself, trial and error. This is also the way I learn to do something; just watching is not enough for me, I need to physically do it myself, weather that means read the paper, work out the math problem, or do a hands on activity. This quote also reminds me of the quote stuck on my bedroom mirror here at school, "Part of growing up is making mistakes."
7) Tuesday, November 8th
"Look good and feel good." You stated this in class while you were talking about our Million Dollar speeches. For the most part, I agree with the statement, but under some circumstances, I think it is completely backwards. For one, you also stated you typically always give full points for dress, because you don't want to judge. So in that sense, when one person thinking he/she looks good, they may still be criticized for their outfit. Another reason why I disagree with this is because some people may not feel comfortable dressing up and looking nice. If sweats are where its at for someone and one day he is forced into a suit, he may feel completely self conscious and not feel good at all. These are just small things that may contradict the quote above, but for the most part I agree with it, looking good makes a person feel good.
8) Thursday, November 10th
"Pictures don't replace memories, they enhance memories." Rob Larson stated this Thursday between the videos we watched. You were talking about this while discussing the importance of having a friend with a good camera. I thought this quote was really great. Sometimes I hear complaints from older generations about all the new technology; our younger generation takes too many pictures and don't appreciate or really remember things that way. Absolutely not. Without memories, only the bigger and more important events seem to be remembered the best, but with pictures, more memories can be remembered clearly.
9) Thursday, November 10th
"Life isn't static. We aren't who we were." This was a quote stated by Rob Bell in the first video we watch in class Thursday called "Today." This quote fits the theme of the video very well. Rob talked about living presently so there are no regrets and so you don't miss a thing rather than living and reminiscing about the past.
Rob reminded me a lot of Sheldon from "The Big Bang Theory" T.V. show. Here is a clip that focuses on Sheldon, showing his intelligence and his very fast paced rant, which is what reminded me of Rob.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRRa7FUrOCM&feature=related
10) Tuesday, November 14th
"No one knows what came first, bread or beer." I found this quote by Rob Larson very intriguing. After doing a little research, it seems that the bread must have come first.
Which Came First ... the Bread or the Beer?by: HorstDornbusch on Wednesday - June 23, 2004 - 14:52 UTC A BeerAdvocate Exclusive |  |
| Beer is as old as civilization itself. It all started some ten thousand years ago in Sumeria, the fertile flood plains between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in what is now Iraq. It was there that the first humans abandoned their hunting and gathering ways and settled down to plant fields, raise cattle, and do all the things we now associate with society. We also know that much of the grain the Sumerians harvested went into their beverage: beer! Yes, the Sumerians were the world's first brewers. From this fact, some beer historians have maintained, somewhat glibly, that man settled and started agriculture because he wanted to turn grain into beer. In other words, these authors argue that beer came before bread. That argument, however, makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, because the ancient brews were made from bread! In those distant times, you needed bread before you could make beer. The very first Sumerian brew was probably made by sheer accident and must have been a rather primitive beverage by today's standards. A forgetful Sumerian baker - probably the lady of the house or her maid - might have left her dough out during one of Sumeria's infrequent rainstorms. When the rays of the returning sun warmed the earthenware mixing bowl, in which the dough was now immersed in water, it became a combination of mash tun and open fermenter (as we would say today). Or, perhaps, a Sumerian family sat down for a bowl of bread dunked in water, perhaps flavored with honey, dates, or date syrup. For some reason, however, the meal was not finished. When the household re-assembled, perhaps a few days later, the bowls of gruel were still on the table. In either scenario, the grain's enzymes converted the starches into sugars and airborne yeasts converted the sugars into alcohol. Perhaps out of innate curiosity, the careless baker or the returning family might have tasted the ale that was so inadvertently concocted and appreciated the sour, refreshing taste - and, perhaps, the heady after-effect as well. This is all speculation but, because of the records we have found and because of the biochemistry involved in beer making, which we now understand, these scenarios are quite plausible. Our Sumerian Stone Age forbears would then take a straw or a ladle and imbibe. We know so, because the Sumerians left us with the oldest graphic depiction of beer drinking. It comes from a seal found at the Sumerian city of Ur and dates from around 3100 BC. It shows two gentlemen using straws to drink beer out of a common crock. The upper-class Sumerian straws used to be made of gold and lapis-lazuli. One such straw was found in the third millennium BC tomb of Pu-abi, a dignified lady of Ur. So there you have it: At the beginning was bread, and then there was beer ... and wine came much later! http://beeradvocate.com/articles/595 11) December 6th, 2011 "Life is not a meter stick, it cannot be measured." Rob Larson stated this today is class, and I absolutely loved it. This quote came out when Rob was talking the grading sheets for the speeches and their importance, or the lack there of. I'll admit, I am one of those people who NEED to know how I did and what comments were made about my performance. As I grow and mature, I am beginning to learn the importance to the statement Rob made. Another quote that can go right along with it is one made by Thomas Monson, "The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. | |
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