t is a well known fact that most people believe that leaders are born, not made. It is also an unfortunate belief that those who have leadership potential also believe this as truth. However the other camp believes that leaders can be made. The former statement is only partly true. There are those with charisma […]
It was downright devious, definitely bordered on preposterous, and decidedly over the top. Maybe even a little cheesy. Yet the audience gobbled it up. The speaker gave a brilliant performance. He courted his audience's emotions. He pushed and pulled on their hot buttons. He pandered to the whimsical fancies of the crowd. Effective? Yes... if […]
Pioneer of Australian idiom for kids dies From: The Australian, March 25, 2010 12:00AM PATRICIA Wrightson, who died this week aged 88, was one of the first children's writers to use Australian places and idioms in her novels. Born in the northern NSW town of Lismore, Wrightson's first books were published in the 1950s, and […]
Kitty Crowther is an illustrator and author, born in 1970, who lives and works in Belgium. The jury's citation reads as follows: Kitty Crowther is the master of line but also of atmosphere. She maintains the tradition of the picture book while transforming and renewing it. In her world, the door between imagination and reality […]
Embraces The Dash Philosophy to Remember Brother 03.16.2010 – Linda Ellis’ poem "The Dash" was published and made into a short internet video by Simple Truths. Since its debut in 2006, the book has sold more than 300,000 copies, and the movie has been viewed over 30 million times. This remarkable poem has touched many […]
"The well of Providence is deep. It’s the buckets we bring to it that are small." -- Mary Webb
"Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other." -- Deepak Chopra
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation." Pearl S. Buck
"I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes. I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep." Greg Evans
