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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.