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You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses. ~ Sanford Meisner Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all. ~ Edward Sapir When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations. ~ B. F.…

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery." ~ Benjamin Franklin "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit." ~ Oscar Wilde "A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility." ~ Lawrence G. Lovasik "Sarcasm is the protest of the weak." ~ John Knowles "Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it." ~ Thomas Carlyle "Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded." ~…

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. ~ Elijah Wood To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. ~ Dejan Stojanovic I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge. ~ Wyclef Jean The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. ~ John Updike You must realize that to swim upstream, to go against the tide is a risky but fascinating game, one of resistance at every turn, whispered criticism behind closed doors, and public scorn. Yet it is…

"Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved." ~ Thomas Sowell "The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread widely. There are people that don't have jobs because of tariffs but they don't know it." ~ Milton Friedman "As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins,…

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk "In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing." ~ Steve Jobs The best strength in basketball is knowing your team. You need to know every player's strengths and…

"The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression." ~ Mao Zedong "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." ~ George Orwell First in the rules for building relationships, you must learn to communicate. Others cannot understand your concerns if you do not speak…

"We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity." ~ Desmond Tutu "In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect." ~ Dalai Lama Leaders must look critically at the diversity in their organizations. The importance of workplace diversity is increasing nowadays. In a world with increased connectivity to hundreds of thousands and possibly millions…

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." ~ Audre Lorde "Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances." ~ Wayne Dyer "The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal." ~ Dorothy Allison "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation…

"Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance." ~ Sasha Azevedo "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." ~ Carrie Fisher "Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it." ~ Honore de Balzac "Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You, the striver, have to realize that envy is a snake in the grass-the more your career position or status to others, the higher the envy tax, as Thoreau…

"What others say and do is a projection of their own reality." ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz "The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others." ~ Carl Jung "Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves." ~ Merrit Malloy "How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies." ~ Grace Metalious "It's interesting to see people's projections because one lives very much in the world of projections." ~ Tenzin Palmo "The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe." ~…

Truth in its passage through the twisting maze which is human existence, has undergone an odyssey, a three-stage process of transformation: first it is ridiculed, then opposed passionately, and finally accepted as self-evident. It is the mind which moulds this journey, an able ally, an intimate person. A rich, pensive mind loves to be alone with itself and is never dull, whereas a mind devoid of reflection is always sad amidst the greatest company. Hence, your health and disposition are of far greater importance to your happiness than all the external advantages that wealth or station can…

War is the continuation of politics by other means, spurred by the will to power. Strength prevents war, and readiness for war is often the path to peace. To win a war, find the enemy's center of gravity, their key point of power enabling them to resist, and attack it. The object of war is to force the will of the enemy, not mindless destruction. Sometimes the best defense is a bold offense that disrupts the plans of your adversary before they can take root. Strategy is key. Winning is greatest when achieved without battle, by breaking the enemy's will. Knowing when to engage is crucial.…

"Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation." ~ Isocrates "As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero "There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents;…

You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor. ~ Randy Newman You think yourself a person of talent, perhaps even genius? It is this very illusion of innate superiority that shall bring about your downfall. For true mastery, you see, is not a gift granted to the select few, but a grim bargain that one makes with time…

"This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." ~ Frederick Douglass A pessimist is a fully informed optimist. He's…