People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou | American poet, singer, memoirist, civil rights activist | born Marguerite Annie Johnson | 1928 - 2014
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
Flannery O'Connor | Considered one of America's greatest fiction writers and essayists | 1925 - 1964
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain / born Samuel Langhorne Clemens / American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, lecturer / 1835 - 1910
Whatever position or branch you are in, find the toughest, most dangerous job in your unit and go do it. I learned that you won’t get a lot of thanks in return. I learned that you shouldn’t expect it. Your soldiers are doing the tough job every day. I guarantee you, you will learn a lot about your troops and they will learn a lot about you.
Admiral William McRaven | Former Commander of the US Special Operations Command | From his speech to the 2015 Class of the US Army Military Academy
Seek first to understand then to be understood - Habit #5
Stephen Covey | American educator, author, businessman | Author, '7 Habits of Highly Successful People'
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec | Author, "More Unkempt Thoughts," 1968 | Polish aphorist and poet
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
David Ogilvy | advertising tycoon, founder of Ogilvy & Mather, known as father of advertising | 1911 - 1999
“Le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.” Translated, it says, “Chance favors only the prepared mind.”
Louis Pasteur | biologist, chemist | discovered principles of vaccination and pasteurization | 1822 - 1895
Every word has a story…one word can tell an epoch of history, define the attitude of an era, or reflect an ancestral sense of humor.
Eugene Finerman | from
Conversation in the U.S. is a competitive exercise in which the first person to draw a breath is declared the listener.
James Nathan Miller | The Art of Intelligent Listening, Readers Digest, September 1965
