Chip Heath Quotes
To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?
Quotes to Explore
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The world needs some help.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
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Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
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People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'
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I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we have left.
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There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.
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Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.
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Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
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[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.
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To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?
