"When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slip backward -- we may actually be backing up to get a running start."
-- Dan Millman
Tag Archive for: quotations
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
~~ Mark Twain
(Thank you so much for your insight, Sir, again!!)
Just a thought … Goals and focus
"Those with goals tend to succeed because they are focused and know where they are going, while those without goals do not."
Ted Karam
"What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?"
-- Jacob Needleman
“No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.”
– Seth Godin
Thought for Thursday – inheritance
What you have inherited from your father, you must earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Start the week with … an inspiration … feeling safe
"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life."
-- Germaine Greer
"There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary."
-- Emmanuel
"One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety."
-- Deepak Chopra
"Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective."
-- Stephen Covey
Thought for Thursday – public speaking
Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold from the mines.
A. Owen Penny
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
