Samples of ways to grab attention in your introduction: 

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• Something unexpected - e.g. an unusual fact

• A heartwarming story

• A suspensful story

• Humor

• Foreshadow what’s to come 

• Speak to shared human experiences

• Ask an intriguing question

• Share a provacative personal opinion

• Motivate with an inspirational quote

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Here are some of my personal favorite quotes: 

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"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says "I'm possible." — Audrey Hepburn

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“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self. ” — Mother Teresa

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“Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.” ― Peter Kreeft

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"When we are not sure, we are alive." — Graham Greene

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“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.” ― Erma Bombeck

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 “Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” – imaginative depictions of the truly good life – “we will seek out the imagery of vice.”

— Russell Kirk

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"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what lies within us out into the world, miracles happen." — Henry Stanley Haskins

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." — Henry David Thoreau

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