It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out. - James Stockdale

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If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

James Stockdale

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

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The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

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Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

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Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

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A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

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Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

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If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

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Jay Baer

If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.

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J. William Fulbright

. . . . Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for understanding among all peoples and all cultures-a search that can only be effective when learning is pursued on a worldwide basis.

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But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.

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