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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e96c9ea | Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job | influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence business-quotes business-success business-advice sales sales-training negotiation | Chris Murray | |
| 2408934 | Don't tell me you're passionate about your job - show me that you're passionate about helping people like me. | money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople passionate business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation helping | Chris Murray | |
| c6a1675 | Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn't listen. | achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving evangelical evangelistic personal-planning professional-listening sales-advice sales-effectiveness selling success-in-business perseverance successful-living success truth success-self-improvement listening-to-others achievements success-in-life tenacity success-strategies business presentation moving-forward reputation doing listening-skills evangelism success-quotes listening sales sales-training | Chris Murray | |
| 8665d09 | I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they'd met me. | achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving evangelical evangelistic happiness-quote personal-planning professional-listening sales-advice sales-effectiveness selling success-in-business perseverance successful-living success happiness truth success-self-improvement listening-to-others achievements success-in-life tenacity success-strategies business presentation moving-forward reputation doing listening-skills evangelism success-quotes listening sales sales-training | Chris Murray | |
| 1c25e4e | Finding happiness by delivering it. | achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving evangelical evangelistic happiness-quote personal-planning professional-listening sales-advice sales-effectiveness selling success-in-business perseverance successful-living success happiness truth success-self-improvement listening-to-others achievements success-in-life tenacity success-strategies business presentation moving-forward reputation doing listening-skills evangelism success-quotes listening sales sales-training | Chris Murray | |
| 8b46043 | Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men. | Herman Melville | ||
| f7ec357 | Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale! | saint-peter | Herman Melville | |
| 6ff694e | nameless miseries of the numberless mortals | Herman Melville | ||
| b4e97a5 | Ignorance is the parent of fear ... | wisdom ignorance knowledge | Herman Melville | |
| 68ab37b | Living through enough, we all come to this understanding, though it is difficult to accept: No matter what path we choose to honor, there will always be conflict to negotiate. If we choose to avoid all conflict with others, we will eventually breed a poisonous conflict within ourselves. Likewise, if we manage to attend our inner lives, who we are will -- sooner or later -- create some discord with those who would rather have us be somethin.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| f3bfa53 | Live Humble as a Dog Live humble as a dog and the world will come alive in your mouth. | Mark Nepo | ||
| de28172 | I learned that everything is right where we are. No matter our pain or distress, all of life is in whatever moment we wake to. I could clearly see and feel how our fear of death makes us run, though there is nowhere to go. Yet mysteriously, I learned that there's a ring of peace at the center of every fear, if we can only get to it. Every time I shower now, I try to remember that we can-not live fully until we can first accept our eventual .. | Mark Nepo | ||
| beb30e7 | When the wind stops, the trees still move, the way my heart creaks long after it bends. Iam always surprised at the aftereffect of being moved deeply by something. I can be hurt or disappointed or feel the warmth of being loved or the gentle sway of being temporarily left, and then I'm ready to chew on something else, seldom allowing for the feelings to digest completely. In fact, I've come to see that much of my confusion in life comes fro.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| ed2bd67 | Let Go of the Rice In a world that lives like a fist mercy is no more than waking with your hands open. So much more can happen with our hands open. In fact, closing and stubbornly maintaining our grip is often what keeps us stuck, though we want to blame everything and everyone else, especially what we're holding on to. | Mark Nepo | ||
| cdcd341 | Breathe like a fallen leaf and think of nothing. Just breathe and let your heart and mind be carried, however briefly, by the spirit you can't quite see. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 9a3d5de | Making Waves I would do anything for you. Would you be yourself? In the Hans Christian Anderson classic, The Little Mermaid, Ariel gives up her beautiful voice in exchange for legs. This is a seemingly innocent fable that captures our deal with the modern devil. For aren't we taught that mobility is freedom, whether it be moving from state to state, or from marriage to marriage, or from adventure to adventure? Aren't we convinced that upwar.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| e4b2bcb | Likewise, every disturbance, whether resolved or not, is making space for an inner engagement. As a shovel digs up and displaces earth, in a way that must seem violent to the earth, an interior space is revealed for the digging. In just this way, when experience opens us, it often feels violent and the urge, quite naturally, is to refill that opening, to make it the way it was. But every experience excavates a depth, which reveals its wisdo.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| b6ab1d5 | I feel like a potato that's recently been mashed,"she said." -- | Robin McKinley | ||
| 63a0e9f | It isn't necessary to call me Father, the chaplain explained. I'm an Anabaptist. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 36feb41 | Being born with a sickly resemblance to Henry Fonda was the first of a long series of practical jokes of which destiny was to make Major Major the unhappy victim throughout his joyless life. Being born Major Major Major was the second | Joseph Heller | ||
| f116825 | It was a vile and muddy war, and Yossarian could have lived without it--lived forever, perhaps. Only a fraction of his countrymen would give up their lives to win it, and it was not his ambition to be among them. To die or not to die, that was the question, and Clevinger grew limp trying to answer it. History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not d.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 883781e | E]veryone knew that sin was evil, and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt positively marvellous. Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins. The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalisation, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vic.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 325fb2a | We have no ideas, and they're pretty firm. | Joseph Heller | ||
| f76140f | I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 7b9eac8 | General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down"." | war | Joseph Heller | |
| 1c7ba67 | I've flown over seventy goddam combat missions. Don't talk to me about fighting to save my country. I've been fighting all along to save my country. Now I'm going to fight a little to save myself. The country's not in danger any more, but I am. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 01b5c9e | You know, one good apple can spoil the rest," Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony." | irony | Joseph Heller | |
| 2406567 | He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 21d7efb | Doc Daneeka was Yossarian's friend and would do just about nothing in his power to help him. | Joseph Heller | ||
| fd9ef41 | Man was matter. Drop him out of a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 980ed31 | Who will marry me? No one wants a girl who is not a virgin." "I will. I'll marry you." "Ma non posso sposarti." "And why can't you marry me?" "Perche sei pazzo!" "And why am I crazy?" "Perche vuoi sposarmi." "Because I want to marry you. Carina, ti amo," he explained, and he drew her gently back down to the pillow. "Te amo molto." "Tu sei pazzo," she murmured in reply, flattered. "Perche?" "Because you say you love me. How can you love a .. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 8e60cb4 | Now, where were we? Read me back the last line." " 'Read me back the last line,' " read back the corporal who could take shorthand." -- | Joseph Heller | ||
| 0a060cd | Well, maybe it's true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. 'Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?' 'I do,' Dunbar told him. 'Why?' Clevinger asked. 'What else is there? | Joseph Heller | ||
| 53ce616 | trying to evade the people who frighten us. We come to work, have lunch, and go home. We goose-step in and goose-step out, changing our partner and wander all about, sashay around for a pat on the head, and promenade home till we all drop dead. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 91d1f8c | The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-red, pear-shaped, plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incarnadine symbol of his own ineptitude. | chaplain pear plum-tomato shaped tomato plum orange red | Joseph Heller | |
| 5fc5fe6 | That's not what justice is," the colonel jeered, and began pounding the table again with his big fat hand. "That's what Karl Marx is. I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting. That's what justice is when we've all got to be tough enough and rough en.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| e080c9e | Some Promised Land. The honey was there, but the milk we brought in with our goats. To people in California, God gives a magnificent coastline, a movie industry, and Beverly Hills. To us He gives sand. To Cannes He gives a plush film festival. We get the PLO. Our winters are rainy, our summers hot. To people who didn't know how to wind a wristwatch He gives underground oceans of oil. To us He gives hernia, piles, and anti-Semitism. | jews jew | Joseph Heller | |
| 64c70b3 | There was no mistaking the awesome implications of the chaplain's revelation: it was either an insight of divine origin or a hallucination; he was either blessed or losing his mind. Both prospects filled him with equal fear and depression. It was neither deja vu, presque vu nor jamais vu. It was possible that there were other vus of which he had never heard and that one of these other vus would explain succinctly the baffling phenomenon of .. | Joseph Heller | ||
| a087940 | You've got to have a God. Without God, you might turn to something really crazy, like witchcraft, or religion. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 647cb6b | Help him! Help who? Help the bombardier! I'm a bombardier. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 9419495 | When I was a kid, I used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek." I threw the book down. It was impossible to read anything with a guy like Orr around you. "Why?" I finally asked. "Because they're better than horse chestnuts," he answered with a twinge of triumph in his voice. "Why'd you walk around with crab apples in your cheeks? That's what I asked," I said, glaring at him. He didn't notice, of course. He.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 46bb16a | I've always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others. | Joseph Heller | ||
| bbece91 | I wish wish I could steal the intricacies of language. But give my kids a break--remember, most of them were fed on Steinbeck's The Pearl. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 2125583 | hdh m t`nyh ly Thrn Hqan : fGybh ybdw 'kthr Hqyq@ w`mqan mn HDwrh | Azar Nafisi |