assignment_returnWorksheet: Comparing Authors Writing To Another
Standard(s): RL.6.9

Read the quotations given below.

1. For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. - Jim Rohn

2. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison

When Thomas Alva Edison says, "Ninety-nine Perspiration", he means ________________.

1. Teachers who inspire know

that teaching is like cultivating a garden,

and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

~Author Unknown

2. Teachers who inspire realize

that there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.

They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.

~Author Unknown

Read the above statements carefully.

Both the quotations are about ____________________________.

1. Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden,

and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. ~Author Unknown

2. Teachers who inspire realize that there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.

They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.

~Author Unknown

Read the above statements carefully.

What could be the meaning of thorns and rocks in the above quotations?

Read the quotations given below.

1. For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. - Jim Rohn

2. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison

Both Edison and Rohn are talking about the benefit of __________________.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.- Kenneth Blanchard