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Monday, November 30, 2020

Quotes from Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life



 

“One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures---solitude, books and imagination—outside with the whistling pines.” ~~ Helen Keller (Book: The Story of My Life)

 

“Literature is my utopia. Here I’m not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”  ~~ Helen Keller (Book: The Story of My Life)

 

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I maybe in, therein to be content.” ~~ Helen Keller (Book: The Story of My Life)

 

“A look is often the very soul of what one says.” ~~ Helen Keller (Book: The Story of My Life)

 

“Sometimes it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light and music and sweet companionship; but I may not enter.” ~~ Helen Keller (Book: The Story of My Life)

 

“I have always accepted other people’s experiences and observations as a matter of course. It never occurred to me that it might be worthwhile to make my own observation and describe the experiences peculiarly my own. Hence forth I’m resolved to be myself, to live my own loge and write my own thoughts when I have any.” ~~ Helen Keller (Book: The Story of My Life)

 

 

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Thursday, November 26, 2020

Quotes from The Better Business Book By Authors Unite

 


 

“Over thinking our big goals leads to paralysis and inaction, and the only solution is a single step.” ~~ Megan Lyons

 

 

“If you want to be successful, whatever that may look like to you, you have to work for it. If you want to make a certain amount of money, have a specific type of clientele and have that freedom to take time away from your business while it continues running smoothly and generate you income when you’re not there, well, that takes work too.”  ~~ Adam fogelman

 

 

“The reality of search engine optimization (i.e. how Google decides what’s important) is that the information everyone is reading on the Internet is created by the best marketers. No, not the best teachers, or the most knowledgeable people, but the marketers who know how to work the system to get eyes to their websites and ultimately their products and services.” ~~ David Hrostoski

 

 

“Successful business target pain points, not minor inconvenience points.” ~~ Eric Fraser

 

 

“Nothing good has come from living quietly. Nothing great was ever created through timidity, more importantly, no great sense of exhilaration came from following the same path as yesterday.” ~~ Chris Taylor

 

 

“You can create any type of business as long as you have the drive to start, to learn, and the patience to see it through.” ~~ Jordan Lejuwaan

 

 

“When people see a genuine vision and goal that is larger than yourself, they will join your cause in any way they can.” ~~ Shawn Hiner

 

 

“Keeping employment or staying focused on your main income source while working on your side project is the smartest choice you could make.” ~~ Tyson Waggener

 

 

“When you start where the money is, you can not only find ways to support the hobbies you have, but you can expand into even more areas based on the skills and principles you started with. Just remember it doesn’t work the other way around. Start where the money is first.” ~~ Rowan hand

 

 

“Just because you can start a business doesn’t mean you should. Choose to start a business that fit you. Ignore advice that works for others but doesn’t excite you.” ~~ Joe Brachocki

 

 

“Unfortunately, what nobody wants to tell people in their early twenties is that the job market is garbage.” ~~ Vincent Borelli

 

 

“In starting a business, you are selling a concept that does not yet fully exist, so you need to believe your success enough so others will want to also believe.” ~~ Colleen Madden Pellegrino

 

 

“Having the ability to sell will make your life better, it doesn’t matter what your job is, what your situation is, what your goals are. Leaning and possessing just a little bit of selling ability will give you more confidence and improve your chance of getting breaks.” ~~ Dave Cox

 

 

“Don’t treat your customers as prospects like they are idiots, or like they don’t live in the real world.” ~~ Jason Economides

 

 

“This may be surprising to you, but the vast majority of so called “gurus” do not share real world usable material on their webinars.” ~~ Jason Economides

 

 

“Don’t waste time worrying about how you could never be as creative as someone else, because you never will be. Copying someone else isn’t authentic. Doing your best at what you can do will always get better results – for your clients and yourself – than trying to mimic someone else.” ~~ Scott McDougal

 

 

“To truly be effective, you need to position yourself in the mind of whoever you are trying to reach.” ~~ Stas Verberkt

 

 

“Great people in bad environments don’t do as well as they could in a great one. “Bad people” in great environments outperform expectations. To build great business, focus on getting the conditions right.” ~~ Mike Ganino

 

 

“Sometimes the solution for long-term success requires us not to slow down for control, but to pick up the pace.” ~~ Lana Guernsey

 

 

“Knowing what to focus on when, when to go big and when to go home, which questions to ask and what to pursue are the hallmarks and opportunities of exceptional leaders and high functioning teams.” ~~ Lana Guernsey

 

 

“We forget to tell ourselves that we can’t rely on others to have our backs when it comes to our dreams. We forget to mention that slowly friends may take another route and become strangers.” ~~ Krystian Leonard

 

 

“Working from anywhere still involves work. Living on the road still requires figuring out how to live. When you try to do both, you don’t master either one and the harder you try to pull yourself in both directions, the more it hurts.” ~~ James Ranson 

 

 

“You never realize how much you have to be grateful for until it is all taken away.” ~~ Bodie Carroll Campagna

 

“People who do not have the courage to jump away from the crowd and chase after their seemingly impenetrable dreams are those who cannot see that scratching the surface to break through will eventually engulf you in the light of the “impossible” being a reality.” ~~ Sadaf Ayaz

 

 

“Know that no dream is not too big for you to achieve. Neither age, money, experience, nor facilities should be issues that hold you back from achieving your goal. The most important thing to have is devotion and passion around you dream, and then everything else falls into place.” ~~ Sadaf Ayaz

 

 

“You are not a victim. Nothing is conspiring against you. Everything you experience is shaping and guiding you to your fulfillment. What you dream about is waiting for you to arrive.” ~~ Peggy Jaegly

 

 

“Wanting it and visualizing it are extremely important – but you must move or nothing transpires.” ~~ Heather Hummer

 

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Friday, November 20, 2020

Quotes from Simone Mondesir Coming Up For Air



 

 

“The attractiveness of their partners was not one of the overriding priorities in the make desire for sex and it came a lot lower down the list than availability.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“Since men discovered that fact that women have hormones, they seem to think that everything we do is dictated by them, but some of us have brains too.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“Any woman who was foolish enough to believe that a man meant the same as a woman did when he said the words ‘I love you’ or ‘I’ll call you’ needed her head examined – particularly if the former was said either before or during sex and the latter when the man was walking out of the door after it.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

“You should never try to love anyone for their sake or anyone else’s, including yours. You either love someone or you don’t. It’s as simple as that.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

“Most people seemed diminished by love, or at least by what they described as love.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“It’s not part of the UN Declaration of Human Rights that everyone should fall in love. If we spent less time looking for love and more time looking for getting on with our lives, the world would be a much happier place.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“Never apologize for sensitivity. More people should have it. The world would be a much nicer place.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“Nice. A word that should be expunged from the English language: so vague, so indeterminate. A word used to avoid feeling. Nothing nice could feel anything.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“Young parents raise children in ignorance, older parents raise them in fear.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“While it was possible to discuss just about any form of sexual behavior over the dinner table, it was still taboo to be thought to criticize the behavior of other people’s children.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“There’s a myth and believe me, it is a myth, that great writers drink a lot. Maybe some can, but that’s nothing to do with whether they are great or not. A writer needs discipline.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“There’s nothing worse than a woman playing with her hair. At best it looked as though she was trying to catch masculine attention, at worst that she was insecure.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“Don’t rush into a relationship and children just because you feel you might be missing out on something. Children aren’t everything.” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

“It was the way gossip worked. Good news made people feel envious, which in turn made them feel bad so they tended to keep it to themselves. However, as long as it wasn’t happening to them, bad news made people feel good because whatever their difficulties, they could point and say: ‘well at least I don’t have their problems.’” ~~ Simone Mondesir (Book: Coming Up For Air)

 

 

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Saturday, November 14, 2020

Quotes from C S Johnson’s The Girl of All My Memes

 



 

“It’s worse to be lonely when there are other people around you. And especially when those people are the ones you feel like you’re supposed to count on.” ~~ C. S. Johnson (Book: The Girl of All My Memes)

 

“It’s the worst feeling in the world to be disappointed by someone who says they love you.” ~~ C. S. Johnson (Book: The Girl of All My Memes)

 

“There was a feeling that was worse than being disappointed by someone who was supposed to love you: the feeling of disappointing someone you supposedly love.” ~~ C. S. Johnson (Book: The Girl of All My Memes)

 

“High expectations have their place. But generally it’s better to have realistic expectations. If you give someone high expectations and they don’t meet them, what happens?” ~~ C. S. Johnson (Book: The Girl of All My Memes)

 

“Kids all love their family, but not all of them like their families.” ~~ C. S. Johnson (Book: The Girl of All My Memes)

 

 

“That’s the great thing about growing up. You don’t have to be the same person you were yesterday.” ~~ C. S. Johnson (Book: The Girl of All My Memes)

 

“Being in love was terrifying. Until you experience it, you never know how it will change you. You always think you will lose a part of yourself.”  ~~ C. S. Johnson (Book: The Girl of All My Memes)

 

“There is nothing so devious as allowing someone a sample of something he desperately wants but can never have.” ~~ C. S. Johnson (Book: The Girl of All My Memes)

 

“That’s the good part of living in the age of information. There’s so much of it, none of it really stays around for too long before something else comes along.” ~~ C. S. Johnson (Book: The Girl of All My Memes)

 

 

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