"What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity."
J. Sidlow Baxter
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'Of those who say nothing, few are silent.'
Thomas Neiel
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."
Joan Baez
"If each of us sweeps in front of our own steps, the whole world would be clean."
-- Goethe
We learn what we have said from those who listen to our speaking.
Kenneth Patton
"Employ the power of positive quitting. Most of us view quitting as something negative, but it’s not. ‘Winners never quit,’ we’re told, when, in reality, winners quit all the time: choosing to stop doing things that aren’t creating the results they desire. When you quit all the things that aren’t working for you, when you quit tolerating all the negative things that hold you back, you’ll create a positive ‘charge’ in your life as well as create the space in your life for more positive experiences."
-- Jim Allen
Image by Aran Ho Yeow Yong.
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
-- Decouvertes
A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Can you whittle your speech or presentation down to that level of perfection?
