Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.
Quotes to Explore
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.
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Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.
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'Not safe?' I asked, all innocence. 'Surely it isn’t illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.'
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People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
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Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity- the illusion that passage of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap which is closing around you.
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One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.
