"Your direction is a result of your perception."

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Source : Todd Duncan (2002). “High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

Todd Duncan

#Perception Quotes #Results Quotes

“Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.”
“Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.”
“The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.”
“Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But she'd seen Lindsey walking home with Samuel and seen her smile with him. She watched as my sister said yes to pancakes and no to everything else. She had tried to imagine herself being my sister as she had spent time imagining being me.”
“It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.”
“All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.”
“We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.”

Source : Sam Houston, Eugene Campbell Barker (1939). “The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”
“To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.”

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