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- Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
- Muriel Spark (1918 - )
- Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
- Ellen Metcalf
- You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
- Mary Hemingway
- If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.
- Roy M. Cohn (1927 - 1986)
- When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
- If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
- Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - )
- The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Henry S. Haskins
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