When speaking, being present means you choose to respond rather than react, letting go of emotions and objections and remaining focused on what is to be achieved.

Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.

Graham Parke

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

Layne Staley

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

Laurence J. Peter

Necessity is the author of change.

Tim Hansel

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

James A. Michener

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

Jeremy Rifkin

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Minoru Yamasaki

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Oscar Wilde

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

Terry Pratchett

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

Stephen Samuel Wise

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.

Virginia Woolf

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

William Wordsworth