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writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
speech literature variables
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech. Carl Clinton Van Doren
speech might able
I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it. Jane Austen
speech remember omniscience
Remember that thought is speech before God. Charles Spurgeon
speech nations
Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation. Edward Norton
speech ifs
If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. Camille Paglia
speech green cold
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. Bennett Cerf
speech easy young
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners. Anthony Trollope
speech action empty
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. Demosthenes
speech remember carnegie
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course. Bill Peterson
metaphor insight supreme
Any supreme insight is a metaphor. Charles Henry Parkhurst
metaphor masters
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. Aristotle
metaphor halfway commonplace
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
metaphor red state
Branson is a metaphor for red state America, Robert Schmuhl
metaphor dictionary
The dictionary contains no metaphors. Paul Ricoeur
metaphor pretentious
You live for pretentious metaphors. John Green
metaphor prisoner
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking... R. Buckminster Fuller
metaphor strain
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Florence King
metaphor humans human-thought
Early human thought proceeded by metaphor, Gerald Edelman