Listening

Sales conversations are not about talking, but about listening.
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-lm-

Give greatly

To succeed, one must give greatly of herself…

About Virginia McDonald


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Esther Parell

The quality of our relationships determine the quality of our life

Loki Muthu
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Esther Parell

Stay connected to the adventurous side of life


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Roger Williams botanical garden, Providence

Pane Vino, Providence

Decide for yourself

To be passive is to let others decide for you.

To be aggressive is to decide for others.

To be assertive is to decide for yourself.

Edith Eger

Tools

We shape our tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us..

Marshall McLuhan

My favorite food

Is cassava leaves

- Mickey

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Bobby brown

To me there's no such thing as failure when something doesn't work out it's an opportunity for you or a message to try something different

Loki Muthu
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In small measure

All work, all progress, all growth is incremental

Same actions repeated over and over again..
Repetition and continuous practice

Loki Muthu
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Pencil

"It all starts with the pencil ✏️ "

Loki Muthu
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Poem

My Favorite Poets
by Adam Zagajewski
Issue no. 226 (Fall 2018)

My favorite poets
never met
They lived in different countries
and different ages
surrounded by ordinariness
by good people and bad
they lived modestly
like an apple in an orchard
They loved clouds
they lifted their heads
a great armada
of light and shade
sailed above them
a film was playing
that still hasn't ended
Moments of bitterness
passed swiftly
likewise moments of joy
Sometimes they knew
what the world was
and wrote hard words
on soft paper
Sometimes they knew nothing
and were like children
on a school playground
when the first drop
of warm rain
descends

—Translated by Clare Cavanagh

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Invictus 

BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

Out of the night that covers me,

      Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

      For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

      I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

      My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

      Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

      Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

      How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

      I am the captain of my soul.

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Universe

I was born and raised in this house. It was my whole universe.

Zarina Hashmi
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Start

It all starts with a pencil

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Dylan

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
— Bob Dylan

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Osep

Three lines from Tristia by Osip Mandelstam

I have studied the Science of departures,
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Who knows, when the word 'departure' is spoken
what kind of separation is at hand,
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Repetition and recollection

"Repetition and recollection are the same movement, except in opposite directions, for what is recollected has been, is repeated backwards, whereas genuine repetition is recollected forward. . . Hope is a new garment, stiff and starched and lustrous, but it has never been tried on, and therefore one does not know how becoming it will be or how it will fit. Recollection is a discarded garment that does not fit, however beautiful it is, for one has outgrown it."

- Søren Kierkegaard. Repetition.


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Challenge yourself

Challenge yourself in life. All the time. Challenge yourself to be the better person. Challenge yourself to be the best person you can be.


Loki Muthu
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Treated badly

Never allow anyone to be humiliated or abused in front of you…

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Anger

Anger, like jealousy, is an unacceptable emotion in our lives…..
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