101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

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101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving.Copyright © 2005 by John Wiley &

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Excerpt Excitation Handout

Assume a retail store manager wishes to resolve a problem of how to reduce employee

theft. She then finds two sets of quotations (“Security” and “Temptation”).

Security Quotations

Probe the earth and see where your main roots run.

—Henry David Thoreau

The fly that doesn’t want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly swatter.

—G.C. Lichtenberg

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

—E.B. White

Man’s security comes from within himself, and the security of all men is founded upon the

security of the individual.

—Manly Hall

It’s an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure.... Each one of us requires

the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

—Harold W. Dodds

Temptation Quotations

What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to dis-

courage it completely.

—Franklin P. Jones

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.

—Alexander Woollcott

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

—Elaine Dundy

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