"Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?"

-- Daniel H. Pink

#Leadership Quotes #Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
“I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.”
“I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.”
“One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.”
“Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.”
“It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.”
“You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.”
“To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.”

Source : "Pictures of Private Life, Vol. 2". Book by Sarah Stickney Ellis, 1835.

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