Tom Heehler > Quotes

“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.”
― Tom Heehler, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways to Say Everyday Words and Phrases

“Your manner of speaking is, if nothing else, the central factor upon which people form assumptions about you.”
― Tom Heehler, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways to Say Everyday Words and Phrases

“We all have an inherent need to meet expectations, whether they be high or low, and when expectations rise, we’re inclined to rise with them. Our improvement then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: as others expect us to be better, we become so, and as we become so, they expect it further still.”
― Tom Heehler, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways to Say Everyday Words and Phrases