Miscellaneous Quotations Relevant to Public Relations
"I'd hate to be tautological or say the same thing over and
over and over and over again." Someone at work
"I praise loudly. I blame softly."
Catherine the Great
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Benjamin Disraeli
“KISS - Keep it short and simple”
Dunno
“KISS - Keep it simple stupid”
Dunno
“The point eludes some people.”
Someone at work
“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment, without it there are only alibis.” Henry Ford
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso
"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." Samuel Johnson
"Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt." Dunno
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." Howard Aiken
"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just stand there."
Will Rogers
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Robert Olson
"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
"God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living." John Brown
"He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet." Joseph Joubert
"Hindsight is always 20:20"
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"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird." Paul McCartney
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." William Blake
"I'm not young enough to know everything." J.M. Barrie "Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned." Edward de Bono "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." President Harry S Truman "It is not enough to just do your best or work hard. You must know what to work on." W. Edwards Deming "Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour." Peter Drucker "Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable." Lord Beaverbrook
"Our life is frittered away by detail ... Simplify, Simplify." Henry Thoreau
"People are disturbed, not by things, but by the views they take of them." Epictetus
"Persistence is the hard work that you do after you are tired of doing the hard work you already did." Newt Gingrich
"Problems and solutions nest within a complex array of related systems and problems." Bob Weile
"Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein
"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." John Ruskin
"The more you think, the more time you have." Henry Ford
"The obvious is always least understood." Prince Metternich
"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." Edwin Schlossberg
"The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition." Dwight Morrow
"There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions." Saul Steinberg "To ask the hard question is simple." W.H. Auden
"To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow intellectually." J.P. Guilford
"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!" Joel Arthur Barker
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail." Alfred Whitehead "What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution, or you're part of the problem." Eldridge Cleaver
"Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" T.S. Elliot
"Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right." Henry Ford
"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. " Daphne du Maurier
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