Lavallo Research Quotes & Sayings

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire. — Phil McGraw

Time heals what reason cannot. — Seneca.

Knowing your inner voice and how you will confront it, is like talking to yourself in front of the mirror and appreciate it. — EllieCue

In my mind, a first date really boils down to selling what you have, what you almost have and what you wish you had. First, what you have: wit, humor, intelligence, beauty, confidence. Second, you want to convey that you have ambition and a desire to grow as a person but not talk yourself up too much - - basically what I almost have. And third, you have to reveal that you're human but not a high-maintenance hot mess. This requires being slightly exposed by showing that you don't have it all together, and there are things that you still want and need, or things you wish you had. Of course, all of this must be accomplished while not being too serious or too silly, and while looking particularly cute. Not to mention being mysterious enough to leave them wanting more. Dang, this dating thing is hard! — Megan Carson

It also reminds me that true power comes not from submission or gain, but from controlling my inner demons. Because our true enemies live within ourselves and feed from the lessons we failed to learn from our pasts. — J.C. Reed

Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time. — Jim Butcher

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand. — Alfred De Musset

... all the king's doctors and all the king's pills couldn't make Frank's waking nightmares go away. — David Wong

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places. — Jerry Saltz

For journalists words are simply tokens to be arranged and rearranged indifferently. But for an artist there can be only one ideal order. — James Joyce

Creating a huge personal fortune was never particularly a goal of mine, and the proof of that lies in the fact that even to this day most of my, and my family's, wealth remains in the form of Wal-Mart stock. I think most people in our position would have hedged their bets a long time ago and diversified into all kinds of investments. As it's happened, though, our very simplistic, very personal investment strategy has turned out far better than anyone could ever have expected. So Wal-Mart stock has made the Waltons a very wealthy family - on paper anyway. I — Sam Walton

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians. — P. J. O'Rourke

The unexamined leader is not worth following. — John C. Maxwell

When I think of the farm, I think of mud. Limning my husband's fingernails and encrusting the children's knees and hair. Sucking at my feet like a greedy newborn on the breast. Marching in boot-shaped patched across the plank floors of the house. There was no defeating it. The mud coated everything. I dreamed in brown. When it rained, as it often did, the yard turned into a thick gumbo, with the house floating in it like a soggy cracker. — Hillary Jordan