“Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.” MenTryingFirstsSuccessFeltBusinessTrustFellowsResponseFriendlyFellow ManGreat Friend Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.” GivingSoulSuccessProcessBusinessKindnessSucceedLonelyDullOur LoveSoulless Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.” WholeStageMassPagesScriptsDialogueDesertSunriseEssaysSuspiciousHopkinsStage Directions Author:Anthony Hopkins
“... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.” EvilAbilityBusinessConditionsProduceIgnoranceRootsExtremesVanityHeartacheCharacteristicsEgoismShipwreckOverconfidence Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.” MindProblemBusinessDangerUnafraidPerplexitySmall Minds Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.” ThinkingWorldHeartLittlesHardBodyFacesFightingTermBusinessConditionsTerribleFairsHardshipNew WorldCommerceBentGraciousPioneersLittle TimeExplorersTime To ThinkAmerican LifeForefathersHardenedDynamiteHead And HeartCommercialismIndomitableIndomitable Will Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.” LifeLife IsAdvertisingAgentsStanding OutAnnoyance Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.” RememberFacesUniverseGratitudeHelpful Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.” HappensWorkShadowWho We AreShadow Work Author:Connie Zweig
“For what is it that angels do? They bring us good news. They open our eyes to moments of wonder, to lovely possibilities, to exemplary people, to the idea that God is here in our midst. They lift our hearts and give us wings.” PeopleGivingHeartIdeasMomentsEyeWonderPossibilityNewsAngelWingsLovelyLiftsMidstGood NewsExemplary Author:Joan Anderson