No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. – Brian Tracy
Laurence Clarke Powell said … “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow…”
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
— Francis Bacon
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again. if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn
–Robert Southey
“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.” — Harvey Mackay
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The flood of careless, unconsidered, cheap words is the greatest enemy of the profound word.
— Stephen L. Talbott
“There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. …But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.”
Deepak Chopra
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives.
–Mahatma Gandhi
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. ~John Ruskin
“The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” (Randy Nelson, Pixar)
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
–Jean Giraudoux
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
“Nothing is worth more than this day.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ Advertising is speech. It’s regulated because it’s often effective speech. ~
Jef I. Richards
“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
Bern William
“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
– Bernard M. Bruch
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ~
Gustave Flaubert
… but oh I am enjoying the challenge of trying!! are you?
“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.”
(Unknown source)
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlisle ~
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” — Albert Einstein
~ A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mansfield
Love this! …
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
Abraham Lincoln
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”
Edward Abbey
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
– HelenKeller
“Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.”
– Cecile M. Springer
“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”
-Margaret Thatcher
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.”
-Ellen Glasgow
“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
-Rosalynn Carter
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
–Sir Ralph Richardson
