"There are simple rules of engagement: You need to have your voice, but it has to be very intentional - be brief and to the point, with fresh ideas. Don't restate things someone else has said. Make eye contact with the person who has the floor."

-- Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#Eye Quotes #Simple Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.”
“My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She's done everything for me to make my dreams come true.”
“The purpose creates the machine.”
“Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if we've seen anything of this exact nature before, .. We won't tolerate it.”
“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."”

Source : Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press
“Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.”

Source : Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale
“What I do in my own time, is my business.”
“Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.”

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