"Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context."

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Source : Nancy Duarte (2013). “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

Nancy Duarte

#Lying Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books
“Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.”
“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.”
“If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.”
“Patrick: Is fear rith maith nÎ¬ drochseasamh. Jessica:And that means what? Patrick: A good run is better than a bad stand. Jessica: Oh. And that means what? Patrick: It means, Jessica, that life is about choices. Sometimes you fight, sometimes you flee, but you never surrender.”
“I remember coming in to the studio and meeting Barry Manilow . I was kind of star-struck. He said, "I want to play you this song." We get to the end of the song and I hear him actually sing my name as part of the lyric. I had to pick my jaw up from the floor!”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.”
“There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.”

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