“Great entrepreneurs are those who carefully tally the risk and rewards before deciding on a course of action. This is what made them great in the first place.”
Source: Triumph: Unleash Your Inner Entrepreneur
“In A COVID-19 World, Don’t Zoom Away Your Credibility.
Your attire and grooming are some of the simplest things you can do to maintain your professional bearing.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“This raises an interesting question in what constitutes “appropriate dress” while teleconferencing. While various authors have issued various guidelines over time, the abrupt turn for America at large to resort to teleconferencing has left somewhat of a sartorial lacuna.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“An excellent current day example of online executive presence is Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony to the Senate Health Committee on Tuesday May 12th, 2020. Providing his testimony virtually, Dr. Fauci was well groomed and dressed in a coat and tie, just as he would on a normal work day. His suit clearly was not a $8000 Brioni. Rather, it reflected a senior government official with a simpler taste who is more focused on the weightier issues of public health currently afflicting the US and the world. As the face of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, his suit not only signals deference to the institution he leads, but reflects a keen awareness for how his appearance could be perceived by everyone online.
Even from home, the message in his persona was “I know my job, I’m prepared, and I take it seriously.” Rhetorically, imagine if he had appeared in a bathrobe looking like he had just gotten out of bed.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Of course, everything is about context. No one who is attending your virtual meeting on being a software developer, or lawn mower repairman, or a big wave surfer at Nazaré, is likely to expect you to appear in a suit.
The point is to give some serious consideration to how people normally dress in your profession.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Don’t let the fact that just because the meetings are now virtual, you no longer need to be concerned with how you look.
It is important to send the message that you are just as prepared and take your job just as seriously when meetings are virtual.
This could be especially costly to your career if your boss or someone more senior to you suddenly appear as an unexpected attendee.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Michael scrambled around again and kissed James’s lips and cheeks in brief, silly pecks.
“Breakfast?”
“You offering or ordering?” James grumbled.
“I’m offering to cook if you’re offering up the groceries. Do you have eggs?”
“No, I have sperm. What the hell do they teach you in school these days?”
Michael giggled. “Chicken eggs, wise ass. In your refrigerator.”
Source: The Mating of Michael
“Only the willingness of learning can make you learn. The person who doesn't want to learn can never learn”
Source: Attainable
“Nonfiction is at its best an act of putting the world back together - or tearing some piece of it apart to find what's hidden beneath the assumptions or conventions - and in this sense creation and destruction can be akin. The process can be incandescent with excitement, whether from finding some unexpected scrap of information or from recognizing the patterns that begin to arise as the fragments begin to assemble. Something you didn't know well comes into focus, and the world makes sense in a new way, or an old assumption is gutted, and then you try to write it down.”
Source: Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“[O]ut of books / He taught me all the ignorance of men, / And how God laughs in heaven when any man / Says 'Here I'm learned; this, I understand; / In that, I am never caught at fault or doubt.”
Source: Aurora Leigh