Tondra Givan Quotes & Sayings

It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it ... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more. — Seth Godin

We seem trapped in the Short Now. The present generation enjoys the greatest power in history, but it appears to have the shortest vision in history. That combination is lethal. — Stewart Brand

You don't need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The axe is fifteen pounds. You have to make sure you don't hurt or hit someone. And hit the beats, because they have five cameras. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I felt sorry that he had suffered so long in the hospital, sorry that even in his last minutes our mindless technology had so rudely interrupted his transition — Abraham Verghese

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand. — Ryan Lilly

Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in medicine is. — Dave DeBronkart

This journey has nourished my soul in a way I couldn't have imagined. — Sandra Vischer

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups. — Jayne Mansfield

Jump in at any time and type. Whoever is chatting with Keith online won't be any — Robert Bryndza

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis. — Sammy Hagar

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im. — Zora Neale Hurston

Why do I crave you like my very breath? — Jennifer Probst

The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was actually not the most serious threat that the United States faced. The president can and should speak of foreseeing an era in which these threats don't exist, but you must not believe his own rhetoric. To the contrary, he must gradually ease the country away from the idea that threats to imperial power will ever subside, then l lead it to an understanding that these threats are the price Americans pay for the wealth and power they hold. — George Friedman