 |
Email This Article | | |  |
Printer Friendly Format |
The Line Cellar ®
Quotable Quotes For Whatever Purpose...
On Excellence
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle, philosopher
Discovery
Discovery consists in seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Nagyraplot, chemist
Live Now
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot, writer
Negotiating
When I'm getting ready to reason with someone, I spend one-third of my time thinking about what I'm going to say and two-thirds thinking about what he's going to say.
--Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president, 1861-1865
On Editing
To elaborate is human. To edit is divine.
-- Editor's Note
In General
No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
--Edmund Burke, statesman and political philosopher
Don't fight forces; use them.
-- Buckminster Fuller, architect
Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
-- Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Senator and Attorney General
Leadership
Leaders are those who significantly affect the thoughts, feelings, and/or behavior of large groups. And the key to leadership is the effective communication of a story.
-- Howard Gardner, Harvard University professor and author. Leading Minds, a landmark study of leadership
| If you would like to learn more about incorporating quotations into talks, please contact ECG or click on a link to learn about presentation skills seminars or private coaching that can help. |
Click here to read our Privacy Policy.
Copyright © 2003 E.C.G., Inc. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published, or broadcast for any commercial purpose without specific written permission. We invite you to use our articles, without modification, for noncommercial purposes, provided there is adequate attribution and a link back to our web site (we only request that you inform us of any such use). In addition, we welcome appropriate links to our site from other sites.