Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
Quotes to Explore
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Forgiveness is God's command.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never believe them because: a.) my books don't make me laugh out loud; and b.) sometimes I have said this to a writer, when really what I meant was, 'Your book made me smile appreciatively.'
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
