“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” InspirationalStillsMomentsWisdomRememberDifficultWomenKindnessRelationshipEducationalCustomersUpliftingGenerosityRight ThingWrongSelf ControlDisputesRight PlaceWrong ThingsDoing The Right ThingTemptingConflict ResolutionTactDoing RightUnsaidInspirational Customer ServiceFounding Fathers DemocracySilence Is GoldenRight Thing To SaySaying The Wrong Thing Book:The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living Source: The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living
“If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.” IfsTryingMomentsGuyWinningEnjoyWomenMissingBad Guys Author:Amy Dickinson
“You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.” MomentsLastsEnjoyWomenGraceAdviceBeatsClockYour Mom Author:Amy Dickinson
“I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.” MindMomentsFeelingsCertainFallWomenImaginationPureFairsStriveGoddessNestsBoyish Book:Selected Letters Source: Selected Letters
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?” MenNeedsFirstsHumansMomentsPastRememberWomenChangedStudentsTaughtMarkFeministBonesContributionProfessorsAttemptingAnthropologyCalendarsChanged My LifeOverlookedCambridgeCarvingContribution To Society28 Days Author:Sandi Toksvig