Brenda Lear

“85 percent of a person's financial success is due to skills in “human engineering,” or in other words, personality and ability to communicate, negotiate and lead.”
― Dominic Mann, Body Language: How to Impress, Connect, and Influence by Mastering Powerful Body Language

“Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.”
― Larry McMurtry, Roads : Driving America's Great Highways

“ ... a part-time pirate can't get much respect around here.”
― James McMurtry

“There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh