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| 079ac59 | To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Say something nice! My wise mother raised us with the philosophy that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. That is a Southern custom if there ever was one! It is easy to find fault, criticize, condemn, and complain--but none of these behaviors will help you enjoy positive relationship results. | find-the-best-in-others how-to-be-complimentary motivational-speaker-susan-young polish-the-gold positive-first-impression-quotes positivity-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susanspeaks-com | Susan C. Young | |
| 08c2d2a | To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Catch people doing things right: Outstanding leaders know that people will be more engaged, perform at higher levels, and be more loyal when they are appreciated and celebrated. Jeff West, international speaker and author of The Unexpected Tour Guide, shares that "People will jump over high hurdles, fight fires and break through walls for leaders who find them doing things right. Building that ki.. | find-the-best-in-others how-to-be-complimentary motivational-speaker-susan-young polish-the-gold positive-first-impression-quotes positivity-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susanspeaks-com | Susan C. Young | |
| 055f675 | What are the key elements for a fabulous, well-delivered compliment? You . . . * are sincere and genuine. * give it freely without expecting anything in return. Your compliment is a selfless gift, not a boomerang. * are specific and detailed. * elaborate on why you like something. * describe how their positive virtue has positively impacted you. * can use adjectives for more colorful descriptions. * keep it positive. * say it like you mean .. | find-the-best-in-others how-to-give-a-compliment motivational-speaker-susan-young polish-the-gold positive-first-impression-quotes positivity-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susanspeaks-com | Susan C. Young | |
| 6681b91 | Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 976f75d | The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 37f0a54 | for, though the instinct to fight and to kill is surely qualified by one's personal courage, the instinct to watch others fight and kill is evidently inborn. When the boxing fan shouts, 'Kill him! Kill him!' he is betraying no peculiar pathology or quirk but asserting his common humanity and his kinship, however distant, with the thousands upon thousands of spectators who crowded into the Roman amphitheaters to see gladiators fight to the d.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 7346e4e | We should not be frightened by appearances. | Alain de Botton | ||
| e8e91a5 | Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity! | Larry Kudlow | ||
| 66f6966 | To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort. | Alain-René Lesage | ||
| 52cbb5f | The more I have to suffer, the more my character will grow. | Alain-René Lesage | ||
| ef425f1 | feuding and revenge were ingrained in their lives. "I" | Francine Rivers | ||
| 5f3ba27 | It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. | Alain-René Lesage | ||
| fb38637 | A flatterer can risk everything with great personages. | Alain-René Lesage | ||
| 3679121 | There ain't no recession. | Larry Kudlow | ||
| 0c1759d | Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. | Alain-René Lesage | ||
| 0a6603f | I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste. | Alain-René Lesage | ||
| 9090bc0 | For a knight to ride in a carriage was against the principles of chivalry and he never under any circumstances rode a mare. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| b763546 | When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| ee331bd | Facts are stubborn things. | Alain-René Lesage | ||
| 70f3549 | The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care. | dominion idolatry leadership ministry paternalism | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| da451d2 | The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values. | Alan Alda | ||
| f5151a3 | The country listened to thousands of speeches and read thousands of newspaper columns raking over every argument for and against imperialism and every aspect of the war in the Philippines. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 5b60fcc | explicit communiqu | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| af8a0e9 | Stimulated by the enemy's presence on the Loire in the center of France, the nobles responded to the summons, whatever their sentiments toward the King. They came from Auvergne, Berry, Burgundy, Lorraine, Hainault, Artois, Vermandois, Picardy, Brittany, Normandy. "No knight and no squire remained at home," wrote the chroniclers; here was gathered "all the flower of France." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 3d884e0 | Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals. | materialism obsession | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| aa7e7b1 | it was manifest that a malady of such horrors, stenches, and agonies, and especially one bringing the dismal despair that settled upon its victims before they died, was not a plague "natural" to mankind but "a chastisement from Heaven." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 0f039e7 | These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle | technology | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| bf18f05 | By such accident of the human mind, war, trade, and history are shaped. The | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a3e3005 | had said, "The greatest contribution Vietnam is making ... is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without arousing the public ire." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| af90f2d | Hubert Humphrey advised new members, "If you feel an urge to stand up and make a speech attacking Vietnamese policy, don't make it." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a7a7102 | After the Marne the war grew and spread until it drew in the nations of both hemispheres and entangled them in a pattern of world conflict no peace treaty could dissolve. The Battle of the Marne was one of the decisive battles of the world not because it determined that Germany would ultimately lose or the Allies ultimately win the war but because it determined that the war would go on. There was no looking back, Joffre told the soldiers on.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 4ec5fbe | Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others. Under | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 0a687ed | Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own. | mercenaries patriotism self-sacrifice | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 0e2145d | The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to. | vision | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 6eff97c | were being ravaged by her brother. In their agreement Amadeus | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a5c96c1 | Canada was regarded as a hostage to restrain Britain, | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 9b2d55a | Joffre was adept at taking advice, and submitted more or less consciously to the reigning doctrinaires of the Operations Bureau. They formed what a French military critic called "a church outside which there was no salvation and which could never pardon those who revealed the falsity of its doctrine." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 09a2c74 | Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come, a fact that generally escapes despots, who by nature are rulers of little wisdom. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| c146fa8 | The early removal from school of future officers of Britain's seapower, leaving them unacquainted with the subject matter and ideas of the distant and recent past, may account for the incapacity of no military thinking in a world that devoted itself to military action. With little thought of strategy, no study of the theory of war or of planned objective, war's glorious art may have been glorious, but with individual exceptions, it was more.. | education trade | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| b814981 | In this atmosphere of doubt why was the extreme risk approved? Partly because exasperation at the failure of all her efforts at intimidation had led to an all-or-nothing state of mind and a helpless yielding like Bethmann's by the civilians to the military. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 73b8b02 | Anything that protracted a campaign Clausewitz condemned. "Gradual reduction" of the enemy, or a war of attrition, he feared like the pit of hell." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 1c72d01 | Called the Golden Rock for the flood of commerce that flowed through its free port, stuffing its warehouses with goods for trade and the coffers of its merchants with the proceeds, it "was different from all others," said Edmund Burke in a speech of 1781 when Eustatius in sudden fame leapt into public notice. "It had no produce. no fortifications for its defense, nor martial spirit nor military regulations.... Its utility was its defense. T.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| d2977d8 | Drink thy blood, Beaumanoir, and thy thirst will pass! | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 3a8a72a | virtue without power," as a speaker had said at the Council of Basle half a century earlier, "will only be mocked, and that the Roman Pope without the patrimony of the Church would be a mere slave of Kings and princes," | Barbara W. Tuchman |