World Champion Evaluator » Quote http://worldchampionevaluator.com evaluating like a champion Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:52:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lightning Bug http://worldchampionevaluator.com/quote/lightning-bug/ http://worldchampionevaluator.com/quote/lightning-bug/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:49:59 +0000 john http://worldchampionevaluator.com/?p=895
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
- Mark Twain
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Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it: To Whom It May Concern.

- Ken Haemer

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- Tom Peters

via: http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2007/05/when-speaking-is-exhausting.html

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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush

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When you can’t get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

- Mark Twain

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The young carry-out boy was asked, “How long have you been working here?” He replied, “Ever since they threatened to fire me.

- Anonymous

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Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.
- Ross Perot

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A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

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There’s always three speeches for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced. The one you gave. The one you wish you gave.  – Dale Carnegie

How different are each of these speeches for you?

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I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
- Charles Schwab

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