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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Benjamin Franklin

“The thing that is really hard, & really amazing, is giving up on being perfect & beginning the work of becoming yourself.” - Anna Quindlen

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~Kenko Yoshida

In the confrontation between
the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins.

Not through strength,
but through perseverance.

H. Jackson Brown

“It is delivery that makes the orators success.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Motivational and uplifting quotes on the most amazing butterflyes photos by David Fingerhut with the music of Yanni.

Today's quote about public speaking - well conversation, really, but it applies as well ... don't you think?

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

-- Dorothy Nevill

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

- HelenKeller

There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience

--Alexander Gregg