Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Robert Baden-Powell

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Listening
  • Nobody
  • Left

• I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Marketing

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Wind
  • Marketing

• In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dance

• But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • News
  • Observation

• I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Better

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
  • More

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lies
  • inspirational
  • Comparison

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Know

• I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

  

  Arthur Cohn
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Integrity

• I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

  

  Van Jones
  • Thinking
  • Wisdom
  • Smart

• Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Marketing
  • Entertainment
  • Stranger

• Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Sometimes

• If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Listening
  • inspirational
  • Marketing