A revised edition of the guide to classic quotes includes pieces for speeches, papers, training seminars, dinners, and more, in a reference that categorizes entries according to today's popular culture and industries. 10,000 first printing.
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Ashton Applewhite lives in New York and writes on subjects ranging from
science and technology to family policy. A contributing editor to IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and staff writer for the American Museum of Natural History, she is the author of Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well, and is at work on a book about family rituals.
William (Tripp) R. Evans, III, Ph.D., CSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. The author or coauthor of a number of humor and reference books, he conducts seminars and consults with corporations, schools, and health organizations in the area of social-emotional learning. He also gives talks on Emotional Intelligence, Stress Management, Divorce, Single Parenting, and the Reconstituted Family.
Andrew Frothingham consults and writes for companies in all industries. In addition to speeches, he has written everything from annual reports and technical papers to greeting cards and tequila tasting guides. Having spent decades attending meetings and conferences, he is passionate about helping people develop more compelling, entertaining speeches and presentations. He earned his degrees at Harvard and lives in lower Manhattan with his wife and two sons.
On Computers
The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.
---B. F. Skinner
On Conservation
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the
limb on which it is perched.
---Paul Ehrlich
On Change
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has
its enemies.
---Robert F. Kennedy
On Commitment
To fly, we have to have resistance.
---Maya Lin
On Depression
Depression is rage spread thin.
---George Santayana
On Diversity
Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes
Scrabble.
---Dennis Miller
On Globalization
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States
is, should, or could be the global gendarme.
-- -Robert S. McNamara
On Imagination
Dare to be naïve.
---Buckminster Fuller
On Loss
People in mourning have to come to grips with death before they can
live again.
---Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
On Poverty
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars on poverty are
0fought to map change.
---Muhammad Ali
On Religion
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when
God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic?
---Lily Tomlin
On Technology
Today even our clocks are not made of clockwork.
---Ian Stewart
Ashton Applewhite lives in New York and writes on subjects ranging from
science and technology to family policy. A contributing editor to IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and staff writer for the American Museum of Natural History, she is the author of Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well, and is at work on a book about family
rituals.
William (Tripp) R. Evans, III, Ph.D., CSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. The author or coauthor of a number of humor and reference books, he conducts seminars and consults with corporations, schools, and health organizations in the area of social-emotional learning. He also gives talks on Emotional Intelligence, Stress Management, Divorce, Single Parenting, and the Reconstituted Family.
Andrew Frothingham consults and writes for companies in all industries. In addition to speeches, he has written everything from annual reports and technical papers to greeting cards and tequila
tasting guides. Having spent decades attending meetings and conferences, he is passionate about helping people develop more compelling, entertaining speeches and presentations. He earned his
degrees at Harvard and lives in lower Manhattan with his wife and two sons.
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