“Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes, What are you going to do about it? Subsequent emotions may not be pleasant, but the hysteria stops. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid.” FeelsLooksMayKidsEmotionMinutesDrugCancerCeasePleasantElephantsAccompanyBeing AfraidTentsHysteria Book:Travels Source: Travels
“At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be carried around like a sack, or two, of flour.” HumansMayHas BeensTwoDiesMinutesStandardsSittingFunctionTheaterCeaseChairsFlourButtocks Author:Michael J. Nelson
“[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.” TwoFactsMinutesMereCeaseTheologyCategoriesSeparatingNuisance Author:H. L. Mencken
“It never ceases to amaze me that companies will spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars teaching people 'how to sell,' and not one minute or not $10 on 'why they buy.' And 'why they buy' is all that matters.” PeopleMatterHoursCompanyMillionsTeachingMinutesSellsDollarsCeaseOne Minute Author:Jeffrey Gitomer