The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
Sir Ralph Richardson
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Chinese proverb:
One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcom S. Forbes
"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."
Greg Anderson
- The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort.
- The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
- K. Patricia Cross
"If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances."
-- Julia Soul
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."-- Charles Beard
"Fifteen to thirty minutes of training a day will make any employee a world class expert in five years."
-- Jeffrey Gitomer