Quotes
Authors
Charlotte Beers
"Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like." --
Source : Charlotte Beers (2012). “I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work”, p.215, Vanguard Press
Charlotte Beers
#Sound Quotes
#Persuasive Quotes
#Compelling Quotes
“I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.”
“Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.”
“Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage,”
“That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.”
“One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.”
“Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.”
Source : ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”
“I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.”
Source : Interview with Matt Ginella, www.golfdigest.com. March 2, 2008.
“Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek. Underneath the lazy sensuality of a luxurious stretch from toes to nose I felt the strong unequivocal demand of my blood. I hugged myself for a moment watching the grey light yield to dawn through half-closed eyes.”
