#oft

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#because #business #cannot #communicators #corporate

When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it. ↗

— Margo MacDonald

#am #case #chamber #courteous #debate

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#almost #become #been #cause #delusion

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#complex #events #exaggerated #find #funny

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#good #i #often #possible #races

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#does #empower #enrich #freedom #further

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. ↗

— Horace Mann

#bound #call #disguises #evil #good

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#changes #chaos #condition #course #indefinitely

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. ↗

— Francis Marion

#fruit #japanese #like #make #often

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise. ↗

— Robert Martin

#encouragement #form #interest #more #much