#speaker

Today is the only day in which we have any power. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivational-speaker #power #seize-the-day #success

If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get. ↗

— Christopher Babson

#motivational-speaker #personal-development #personal-growth #inspirational

Change is a contact sport. ↗

— Romal J. Tune

#education #teenagers-and-parents #teens #youth-motivational-speaker #change

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#commencement #easy #how #make #next

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#attention #been #between #couch #few

An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as "the expert" in their particular niche. Call it a business card, a resume, a billboard, or whatever you choose, but the long and short of it is that books are no longer just books. They are branding devices and credibility builders, not to mention door openers. Books are the reason that authors command large speaking and consulting fees. ↗

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#book-power #branding #credibility #speaker #write-a-book

When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him passage. You. Speaker - ever since I first learned Stark and read the Hive Queen and the Hegemon, I waited for you. I said many times to my father, Rooter, of all humans he is the one who will understand us. Then Rooter told me when your starship came, that it was you and the hive queen aboard that ship, and I knew then that you had come to give me passage, if only I did well." "You did well, Human. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#ender-wiggin #orson-scott-card #speaker-for-the-dead #life

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#definition #i #man #marriage #mr

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#books #daughter #decision #earlier #else

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going