Inspirational Quotations
"It seems rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners."
Erma Bombeck
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure." Samuel Johnson,
British poetic critic, lexicographer
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
Gene Fowler, US Journalist, biographer
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
Albert Einstein
"Of one thing we can be sure. The quality of our life in the future will be determined by the quality of our thinking."
Edward de Bono
"It's not ways of working that need to become more flexible; it's ways of thinking."
Simon Caulkin
"Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake."
Peter Trucker
"Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."
Malcolm Gladwell
"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
Isaac Asimov
"Speed is a great asset: but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference." Ty Cobb
"What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?"
St Jerome
"Curiosity has it's own reason for existing."
Albert Einstein
"The opposite of creativity is cynicism."
Esa Saarinen
"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."
Josh Billings
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." George Bernard Shaws
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." Michel de Montaigne
"The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out."
Edgar Dale, media guru
"A leader cannot afford to be a good communicator. He must be a great communicator."
William Hodges, US Judge
"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."
Leonardo Da Vinci
"If you never change your mind, why have one?"
Dr Edward De Bono
"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
Albert Einstein
"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."
Carl Sagan
"Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun."
Colleen C. Barrett
"Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed."
Peter F. Drucker
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strips
"Good communicating is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
Anne Worrow Lindbergh, Widow of Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
Rollo May, Psychologist and Author
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." Indira Gandhi, Former Indian Prime Minister
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
Henry Ford
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow"
Charlotte Bronte
"It's common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all try something"
Franklin D Roosevelt
"I've never met a human being who would want to read 17,000 pages of documentation, and if there was, I'd kill him to get him out of the gene pool."
Joseph Costello