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Fuck your honour, Kaisheen. You are the smartest man I know, yet you had me travel three days during winter to have my counsel. Are you making a move on the Emperor? If you are, you’ll have my full support and the backing of the Monasteries.
— Paul W.S. Bowler, Death and Duty
The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn’t dead yet. I think.
— Paul W.S. Bowler, The Bucket
If the ending is not happy, the story is not finished.
— J.P. Leck, The Strangely Undying
The Clowns were Hungry. They did not want to wait to be fed. But when they sated there hunger, they wanted it to be in the right way, for the right reasons. They could wait . The Grace Keepers
— Kristy Logan
Christmas is a fun theme for a courtroom tale, because like that "Miracle on 34th Street", strange things have been known to happen when Christmas and the law come face to face.
— Landis Wade
The game finished when we heard a woman’s anguished screams from the cell that Lorr had chosen for one of his damsels. It wasn’t fun after that and we allowed the characters to die. Though we granted them much quicker deaths than the cells promised.
— Paul W.S. Bowler, The Bucket
Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as inventive and creative as the writer can make it, a whirlwind of images and plot twists, but it cannot be built on a foundation of air. The world must be identifiable with our own, must offer us a frame of reference we can recognize.”“Fantasy stories work because the writer has interwoven bits and pieces of reality with imagination to form a personal vision.
— Terry Brooks
The coronation took place at noon the following day. The Hall of the Rivan King was full to overflowing with nobles and royalty, and the city below was alive with the sound of bells.	Garion could not actually remember very much of his coronation. He did remember that the ermine-bordered cape was hot and the plain gold crown the Rivan Deacon placed on his head was very heavy
— David Eddings, Castle of Wizardry
To read is to live inside a new world...
— R.L. Henry, Hybrid
Colm was a good sleeper. But if there was one sound at night that should wake him, and any sensible man who loved his family, it was the barking of dogs. The noise was coming from the village. It was not just one or two dogs, but surely every mangy cur and mongrel that lived there. Something was abroad, and in this time of the dying of the year, when fell creatures roamed the countryside as hunger began to bite, it was not likely to be anything good.
— Duncan Harper, Witch of the Fall
I don’t think I would be very good at killing,” Merla said.“To be honest, nor do I. But you may have to.”A disturbing thought came to Merla. “Faye,” she asked, “have you killed a person?”There was a moment’s silence. “Let’s just say that I am familiar with the techniques.
— Duncan Harper, Witch of the Fall
Now it was Arla’s turn for astonishment. The Boy gave Perry a wide smile as he shook his hand. “You know the land you say? Up along the promontory? Good. Well, perhaps we should take you along. Do you have a horse?”“No” Perry replied. “But I can ride.”“Arla is quite slight,” the Boy said. “Perhaps she can ride the packhorse with our gear.”Arla gave a strangled gasp, and the Boy grinned at her. She realised he was joking, and breathed a sigh of relief. But she did not trust herself to speak. What did Branguin think he was doing?
— J.J. Gadd, Lunation
My stomach knotted up as heat surged through me. Why did I feel like melting every time I saw him, or heard him talk? “Stop that right now.” I blushed. “I know what you’re doing, Jace, and it’s not going to work.”Jace and Charlie.
— J.L. Clayton, A Spark of Magic
Don’t you just love children? If they’re not disappointing you, they’re dead.
— Shawn Wickersheim, The Penitent Assassin
Lost…What if all of the folklore elements your grandfather spoke of—actually were?What if there was only a paper thin separation of less than one degree?Who would save you? How would you survive?
— Troy T. Tabor
Murder doesn’t bother you much, does it?”“Not as much as your endless questions.
— Shawn Wickersheim, The Penitent Assassin
No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.
— Nicole Gulla, The Lure of the Moon
She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?''Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.
— Donna Thorland, Drith
I was pregnable once,” Merill thought to contribute. She remembered how troublesome it made getting around, having a ripe belly. Couldn’t roll properly, couldn’t hop properly, couldn’t romp or flop properly. There were the cravings for roasted cabbage—she loathed cabbage, with its leaves and growing in rows. And labor! Merill passed out during childbirth. She’d endured burns, lacerations, rips, serrated teeth, nails, hooks and a trove of unmentionable harm-inflictors. Labor trounced them all and wriggled gleefully in the spray of blood and gore. “Being pregnable is no good. No good at all. Like growing a bitter melon in your belly.
— Darrell Drake, Where Madness Roosts
Shelby looked over to see Andrew silently mouthing syllables to himself, as if he were part of an ecstatic rite. He grinned as he bit fricatives and tongued plosives. He was tasting English origins, mulling over words ripped from bronze-smelling hoards. Words that had slept beneath centuries of dust and small rain, sharp and bright as scale mail. Poetry had never moved her quite so much as drama. She loved the shock of colloquy, the beat and treble of words doing what they had to on stage. Andrew preferred the echo of poems buried alive.
— Bailey Cunningham, Pile of Bones
Ohlen stood and walked around the clearing, examining the ground as he went. "I see only one set of tracks..." his voice trailed off as he knelt, inspecting the footprints more closely. "I've seen these before. This is the cru’gan.”Ahmahn came over and bent down beside his friend. "Him? Do you mean the scarred one that has Mirra?""Either that or a ferocious rabbit wearing cru'gan boots," Ohlen said sardonically.
— Steven Scott Williamson, Ohlen's Arrow
I'm pretty much awake now." (P) "The last time I said that, I passed out in the bathtub." (I) "I remember that. Neil covered you with towels and said that he found a mermaid." (P) "You were so beautiful, Mummy. Like Ice Bird when he freezes the pigs." (N) "Thank you, sweet." -- Ingrid, Paul and Neil.
— Bailey Cunningham
Let there be a time in the future, I prayed, when he laughs with his children, and plays on the shore with them, and spends all his nights in loving arms. Let us have that. To whom I was praying I did not know. The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.
— Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight
Duke to Michel: I’m fairly certain that even ifyou’d struggle in a quiz against a pigeon, you are capable enough of opening doors.
— Elias Zapple, Duke & Michel: The Mysterious Corridor
Draw a cart with horses, or push it down a hill...Both move the cart, aye?” -- Daerwin of Brannagh
— Jordan MacLean, Sword of Hemlock
The dead worry the living because their silence reminds us how little the great comedies and tragedies in our lives matter and how little the universe would care if we'd never lived at all.” -- Nara
— Jordan MacLean
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it. Mark Twain
— Toni Bunnell, The Room Between the Floorboards
Tori gazed out on the calm Ancific Ocean across which, incredibly, she would be taking a coach.
— Kay Kenyon, A Thousand Perfect Things
This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.
— H.A. Lamb
And if there is one last thing I would have you know before we reach these final pages, it's that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, no matter how hard we want it to be so, sometimes there is no such a thing as happy ending. This is my ending. This is how i burn.
— T.J. Klune, Burn
Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?
— Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past
I ought to warn you, dear, he can get rather wild when he’s hungry
— Wilkie Martin, Inspector Hobbes and the Blood
For I inhabit the spaces in between, where auras mix and hearts reach out and knowing hovers, and where sticks against each human the little burrs of others, long-ago brushed against but never forgot.
— The Wind Sophia in Featherfoot
Though the people of this modest village were not accustomed to seeing such barbaric men as Varg, it was his inhuman features that had the citizens of Fellenshire Village on edge. Not only was Varg's hair whiter than an old wise man's beard, but he was nearly six and a half feet tall and easily towered over the shaken folk of the village. His enormous stature alone would intimidate even the most hardened warriors, but with Varg's hair paired with his silver eyes, the people of this small town whispered that the devil himself may be walking amongst them.
— Brittany Comeaux, The White Wolf
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Winter Liar" by Liam Doyle the IncubusWhat come once here will never come again,no matter monument nor memory;all sunwarmed green succumbs to winter's wind.And you, my love, were also my best friend,and had your life to live. The tragedywas not just my youth's recklessness, althoughI trusted much to impulse, whim, freedom,a destiny excluding doom. Frankly,youth can be our insanity. But now I'm curedof that fever, although the price was high;and chilly April wind can only sighat my regrets, yet sun will brighten wind so,one knows that soon green stirs, and wild bees hum.And summer once more will make winter liar,but I won't warm. You're all I'll ever desire.
— Juliet Dark, The Demon Lover
Every so often i'd wake up when his arms clenched around me, his embrace so tight i thought he'd cut off my circulation, holding me as if even in his sleep he was haunted by the fear of losing me.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only oneone tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from site. And more often than not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul." ~Acheron 2008
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron
When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given.
— Kayt C. Peck
Once Errol righted himself into some semblance of horsemanship, they set off at an easy canter. That is, the other horses set off at a canter, while Errol's horse settled into a teeth-shattering trot. After a hundred paces he could feel Horace's backbone through the saddle. The other riders pulled ahead without a backward glance, leaving him to his four-footed torture.
— Patrick W. Carr, A Cast of Stones
There goes the world's wimpiest vampire.
— Heather Swain, Josie Griffin is Not a Vampire
Living with thieves, it would be a matter of moments before they picked the lock, but she certainly was not going to make it easy for them.
— M.L. Chesley, Adversarius
I adore you, Chiru. I want to show you in ways words can't express
— Augusta Li, The Brush Whistler's Song
♫ Climbed that roost, alighted right there. Made mush of his head for the onlooker bears.A two-pronger her prize, a meat most rare. Do-gooders will pay. Do-gooders will fear. ♫
— Darrell Drake, Where Madness Roosts
The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course.
— Peter S. Beagle
Something in Naja's voice, in the roughness of his hands, made Arjin wonder if there might be some truth to the tales of Ansari devouring soft, young humans. The hunger and need he felt pouring off the other man frightened Arjin even as it excited him.
— Augusta Li, The Brush Whistler's Song
He considered my question for a moment and then ducked his head to kiss me. He tugged me flush up against his chest , pulling me closer than i even though possible, and then his lips touched mine.
— Colleen Houck
In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.
— Eve Forward, Villains by Necessity
It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners belong to other uncomplicated fairy tales.
— Jennifer Silverwood, Silver Hollow
I already feel like the Girl Who Lived around here.
— Jennifer Silverwood, Silver Hollow
If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have been easier to keep him in that special category of potential enemy.
— Jennifer Silverwood, Silver Hollow
Even though you distance yourself,you always look out for me,it makes me want to get into more trouble
— Dahlia L. Summers, The Wish
Todo o reino de Fantasia assenta-se sobre alicerces de sonhos esquecidos." A História Sem Fim(The whole kingdom of Fantasy sits upon foundations of forgotten dreams - Endless Story).
— Michael Ende
I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
— Jay-Z
Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
— David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.
— George Carlin, Watch My Language
You learn more sales techniques from rejections than you can ever learn from approvals - provided you analyze the reason for the rejections
—  most of the time it’s not the cost involved but your failure to understand the need & create the utility.
Buying & selling is not a process, but a story, the base of this story is “need”. Need arising out of necessity or a feeling to own / experience that product / service. The customer narrates the base (need) of the story, but how well the story develops is left to the storytelling (sales pitch) skills of salesperson, sometimes the storytelling leaves such an impression that the customer has no choice but to be a part of that story.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
Relations be it personal or with customers are very sensitive in nature, If you only remember people in time of your need, they will surely not return the favor, instead their favor will benefit someone who often keeps in touch without any visible benefits. The relationship will last longer if we start earning it & not take it for granted.
— ShahenshahHK
Life is all about selling. Being able to exchange knowledge and move people to co-operate.
— Colin Myles, Life Positioning: 27 Success habits to increase your personal value
When people stop buying from us, do not blame the market conditions straightaway, we must first analyze a change in the buying behavior due to market conditions, maybe the luxury / exposure is not part of their wish list, maybe they only “buy” strictly out of need, and what they need is fulfillment of their need in a cost-effective way.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
The sales vehicle runs not on any fuel, but mostly on goodwill, the goodwill is not good because it achieves something on its own, it is good because it helps the carrier with a reputation of being the best in whatever they do.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
When we talk about smart selling, it’s not exclusive, anyone can be better at smart selling, if only we come out of self-illusion zone created due to a successful month-end scorecard, we fail the minute we start paying more attention to successful sales campaigns while ignoring the unsuccessful ones. Sometimes things do fall into our nets, but smart selling is all about paying equal attention to things which escaped the net.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
Habits are nothing but a form of performing work with some satisfaction... We allow them to persist by being content with the outcome they provide. It's fine in some cases, but it becomes a disaster when it gets involved with our sales approach. We continue following the same approach despite not getting favorable results, eventually we accept the outcome so much that realization of becoming habitual losers becomes another habit.
— ShahenshahHK
Once you have made the sale...you can stop selling.
— Bobby Darnell, Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville
Your world is created by your words.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
Always do what is right with the customer. What you sow now, you will harvest later.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
How cold or warm are your calls can be best judged by the call duration and the number of questions you ended-up answering, and if the clients aren’t responding to follow-up calls, one of the reasons could be that they didn’t like “what & how it was said”, rejections teach if we start looking at the basic part of human behavior - we don’t talk to people if the talk doesn’t interest us.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
We start under-estimating our capabilities, when we start repeating the failure reasons given by others to justify their lack of effort. “Market is very slow” is one common reason. The market never stops moving it only changes its pace from time to time, & we fail because of our inability to read the pace of the market.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
Humor can give you the edge you are looking for.
— Jeffrey Gitomer, Little Red Book of Sales Answers: 99.5 Real Life Answers that Make Sense, Make Sales, and Make Money
You business exist because your customers allow you to exist. Never forget it.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
Selling without targeting is like sailing without a compass. Think before you invest more time in pursuing the lead.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
If you have zero sales or no clients to meet today, it means your efforts yesterday, the day before, the week before or the month before that were not effective; what you are going to get today will always be due to the preparatory work done in the past.
— ShahenshahHK
Sales business is funny, despite the target stress running in the back of our mind, we still chose & approach the clients to avoid rejection, we learn to live with the stress but we can’t learn to live with the rejection, which is the part & parcel of the sales process. To survive, we must act like a non-swimmer in the water, how the fear of drowning makes them hold on to anything in sight? In order to survive keep an open approach, don’t just wait for the rope of your perceptions to get pulled out.
— ShahenshahHK
Are you failing in sales? Are you not able to meet your targets on a regular basis? Do you easily get tired of trying? Do you want to be better than your team members? Don't worry! Try our magic potion: Add some drops of Focus (follow successful team members), some drops of listening (listen properly to customers), some drops of learning (be open to suggestions) & some drops of confidence, now mix it with a never-give-up approach, & finally garnish it with a pinch of confidence. Remember this potion works only if taken with a dose of belief.
— ShahenshahHK
For a batsman or a bowler, the job never ends at just batting & bowling, it continues with switching the positions in time of need, the stand out players never limit themselves to their primary role but change their style of play as per the happenings in the game. Anyone can hold a bat or ball in their hand, only thing matters is how well you use these things to make your team win. Similarly, as a Salesperson - your job is not only to think as a salesperson, but also as a client, and sometimes also to make an unfavorable situation favorable by planting an idea in a client's mind & creating a need.
— ShahenshahHK
Selling is Serving: Serving people Asking questions Listening actively Engaging the client Supporting their decision
— Farshad Asl
He could sell snow to an Eskimo. --Overheard in a Real Estate Office
— Bob Eckstein, The History of the Snowman: From the Ice Age to the Flea Market
The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one.
— Roy H. Williams, The Wizard of Ads
You can’t afford not to manage your brand.
— Daniel C. Felsted
Be unforgettable. The more memorable you make yourself to clients, the easier the sales process will be.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
Prospects get called everyday by salespeople. They can tell if you are a sincere or impatient sales person who doesn't really care about their problems.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
Listen first, then sell.
— Timi Nadela
Isn't your natural talent or an industry expert to succeed in ‪‎sales‬. It's how you explain your failures.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
In hypercompetitive world, the only way to make an impression on your customer is to break through the noise
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
Beware of the man who's extraordinary claims end in a sales pitch.
— R.A.Delmonico
No one cares what YOU want, they only care about themselves.
— Art Sobczak
Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.
— Daniel H. Pink
If I did sales - my technique would be to hand-seal each deal with gourmet omelets, by Jarod Kintz's secret invisible recipe that I stole.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
You will be able to say you have done your best at selling when you satisfy your customers' needs on a steady and consistent basis. As a professional salesperson, you can't satisfy those needs unless you know what they are and appreciate the person who has them
— Jack Carew
A few of us are extraverts. A few of us are introverts. But most of us are ambiverts, sitting near the middle, not the edges, happily attuned to those around us. In some sense, we are born to sell.
— Daniel H. Pink, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
Sales success is not about convincing people to buy a product or service they don't want. It's about engaging with people who are interested and then helping them make the right decision. That's the key to repeat business and referrals.
— Dave Warawa - PROSALESGUY
If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling.
— Zig Ziglar, Secrets of Closing the Sale
What sets the best suppliers apart is not the quality of their products, but the value of their insight.
— Matthew Dixon Brent Adamson
You don’t learn through sales calls, it’s not customer validation.
— Jason Cohen
It's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on.Pg.406
— Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Active prospecting let's people know that they matter
—  that you've sought them out.
Successful prospecting depends on selecting methods that you can effectively navigate. If something makes you uncomfortable, please don't do it.
— Diane Helbig, Lemonade Stand Selling: Accelerate Your Small Business Growth
Soulful Salesman (definition); "One who demonstrates expressive, sensitive, eloquent, moving, profound, meaningful, and heartfelt concern for his/her clients and customers.
— Ronald Solberg, The Soulful Salesman
History's peddler, chapman, drummer, canvasser, commercial traveler, hawker, and packman may be gone from our roadways. But their indomitable spirit and unflagging optimism, along with an understanding of human nature, will endure in each of us who choose to follow their lead.
— Ronald Solberg, The Soulful Salesman
Are we all not knights and ladies of the road?For all the world's our territory,We have our exits and entrances,Experiencing both rejection and acceptance,And each in his timeMust joust with oneTo advance to the other.
— Ronald Solberg, The Soulful Salesman
A real salesman knows how to engage Anyone Anywhere Anytime in a sensible conversation.
— honeya
Different is the salesman who shows respect for our intelligence, who tries to get us to express exactly what we ourselves wish, who listens to us as effectively as he talks to us, above all, who is cordial to us even after we have refused to sign
— H.A. Overstreet
The quality of the problem that is found is a forerunner of the quality of the solution that is attained. It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior knowledge, technical skill, or craftsmanship, that often sets the creative person apart from others in his field.
— Daniel H. Pink
You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling
—  you're solving problems.
There is something about sales that is universal
— Out of ten at' least one says YES... try it anywhere... will work!
The starting point for ‘discounts’ may be the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP), an arbitrarily high price that no one will ever pay. By crossing out the high MSRP, retailers are handing shoppers a psychological victory that will make them feel good about the purchase, even if the discounted price is still expensive.
— Ian Lamont, Personal Finance For Beginners In 30 Minutes, Volume 1: How to cut expenses, reduce debt, and better align spending & priorities
You can never learn Sales by reading books and watching videos, you can only get motivated by that.. To learn Sales (telesales) dial 300+ calls daily and (direct field sales) meet at-least 5 clients daily...Only customers can teach u sales!
— honeya
In army they say "Shoot to Kill" and in Sales "Pitch to Sell".
— honeya
Born to sell :)
— honeya
TeleCaller's (cold calling) job is similar to sniper's, wait patiently for the Right Party Connect/Target and make no mistake.
— honeya
No drug or drink can match the high/kick that a Sale gives you! Though the feeling can never be expressed in words but I feel like I am the king and on top of this world!
— honeya
The sales process should be as natural and fluid as a well choreographed dance.
— Butch Bellah, The 10 Essential Habits of Sales Superstars: Plugging into the Power of Ten
Sell (service or product) as if you are buying it, convince yourself first that, it is worth buying..It is very simple; u 'cannot' convince someone till the time you're not convinced
— honeya
If you're as good as you're going to be, life's as good as it's going to get.
— Butch Bellah, The 10 Essential Habits of Sales Superstars: Plugging into the Power of Ten
If coffee is for closers, gold is for prospectors.
— Butch Bellah, The 10 Essential Habits of Sales Superstars: Plugging into the Power of Ten
At the end of the day, taking 50% off a $250 dress still means walking out of the store $125 poorer.
— Ian Lamont, Personal Finance For Beginners In 30 Minutes, Volume 1: How to cut expenses, reduce debt, and better align spending & priorities
Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales,” she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. “Because your pitch could use some work.
— Caitlin Crews, The Replacement Wife
All the time and effort put into networking can be all for naught if there is no follow-through. The same goes for sales. And leadership. And … well, everything.
— Beth Ramsay, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
Change your introduction so that you can change the outcome. Engage clients or they'll be thinking divorce.
— Rob Liano
His baseline attitude toward humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was probably rooted in the belief that had been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was an objective reality, which all people worth talking to could observe and understand, and there was no point in arguing about anything that would be so observed and so understood. As long as you made a point of hanging out exclusively with people who had the wit to see and understand that objective reality, you didn't have to waste a lot of time talking. When a thunderstorm was headed your way across the prairie, you took the washing down from the line and closed the windows. It wasn't necessary to have a meeting about it. The sales force didn't need to get involved......It was time, in other words, to call out the sales force, take Jones to lunch, begin gardening personal contacts, shape his perception of the competitive landscape. Forge a partnership. Exactly the kind of work from which Richard had always found some way to excuse himself, even when large amounts of money were at stake. Yet now his life was at stake, and no one was around to help him, and he still wasn't doing it. He simply couldn't get past his conviction that Jones could go fuck himself and that he wasn't going to angle and scheme and maneuver for Jones' sake.
— Neal Stephenson, Reamde
Professionals never guess—they make it their business to know their business.
— Michelle    Moore, Selling Simplified
Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.
— Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly
However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.
— Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly
Is the competition really some mythical beast? No, not really. Knowing how to play your group of salespeople as a team, to overcome the group objective of winning the customers support, is the objective. The opposing team in proper viewpoint is not just the similar competing business to yours. Nor is it the competing franchises of your home office.No, in order to really be effective in the market place as a surviving business, you must go beyond that philosophy. You must be willing to expand your viewpoint to fully understand who the competition truly is. Your true competition is simply this: Anywhere that your customer would spend his or her dollars as opposed to spending them at your company or place of business.
— Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly
Have you ever seen someone buy a piece of furniture or clothing from New York, Chicago or London? Even though the exact same product was available right down the street at a local retailer for a fraction of the cost? This kind of phenomenon is referred to as ‘The expert from afar’ enticement that enraptures the naïve with the idea that things distant and far removed have more value because of the popularity of their location or the pedigree of the presenter. They often neglect to seek resources locally that offer the same product or practical wisdom, and do not employ the benefits of direct first hand observation to test the efficacy of what can be found close by within arm’s length. Instead they venture afar without looking at what is often right in front of them, invisible because of proximity.However, invisibility has its own value too. It allows one to carry on unnoticed, and go merrily about your own successful way.
— Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly
Don't confuse efforts with results....
— C.P. Sennett
If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE
— Fela Durotoye
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.
— Stephenie Meyer, The Host
There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever i can.
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.
— Libba Bray
I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.
— Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
— Anaïs Nin
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself. 
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.
— Mark Twain
Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.
— Jackie Morse Kessler, Hunger
Don't confuse symmetry with balance.
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Here's a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass.”“I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.
— James Patterson, Roses are Red
There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.
— Louise Dickinson Rich
You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.
— M. Russell Ballard
[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.
— Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
I want to caution you against the idea that balance has to be a routine that looks the same week in and week out.
— Kevin Thoman
I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.
— Faith Baldwin, Many Windows, Seasons of the Heart
Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)
— Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.
— Eve Babitz, Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time: A Novel
There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.
— Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
It’s still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we’d be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We’d be rich and they’d be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They’re all full of it. Nothing balances out.
— Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities
Life is a balance between emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) and intelligence quotient (IQ).
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.
— Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.
— Sandy Fussell, Shaolin Tiger
It's all about balance, do you see? Balance is the trick. Keep the balance and - " she stopped. "You've ridden on a seesaw? One end goes up, one end goes down. But the bit in the middle, that stays where it is. Upness and downness go right through it. Don't matter how high or low the ends go, it keeps the balance." She sniffed. "Magic is mostly movin' stuff around.
— Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
be the calm eye of the storm where nothing phases you, focus on your centre to remain balanced, let your life flow like a stream of wind
— Jay Woodman
Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
Work to enjoy life. Work to create value. Work to survive, strive and thrive. But do not work...to work.
— Richie Norton
And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.
— Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World
A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.
— Joe Sacco, Journalism
The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.
— Joe Sacco, Journalism
Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine.Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.
— Jonathan Heatt
In life there are many thing's you may not like or want but is necessary for stability and sustainability for life and its environment. GOOD -> BAD, BAD -> GOOD => GOOD = BAD.
— Anonymouse
Balance is not something you find, it's something you create
— Jana Kingsford, UNJUGGLED: Lessons From a Decade of Blending Business, Babies, Balance and Big Dreams
But none of that matters at all.” His head raised to stare balefully at me, but I said, incoherent yet convinced, “It’s just—a way to go. There isn’t only one way to go.” I waved at his notes. “You’re trying to find a road where there isn’t one. It’s like—it’s gleaning in the woods,” I said abruptly. “You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it’s different every time.
— Naomi Novik, Uprooted
If I don't get murdered/Rob or have troubles/problems... somebody else should have them. This is called "Ballance".
— Deyth Banger
It's best to be like water,nurturing the ten thousand thingswithout competing,flowing into places people scorn,very like the Tao.Make the earth a dwelling place.Cultivate the heart and mind.Practice benevolence.Stand by your word.Govern with equity.Serve skillfully.Act in a timely way,without contentiousness,free of blame.
— Sam Hamill, Tao Te Ching
The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, “deep common sense,” balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
Achieving the right balance is all part of programming a news magazine.
— Jonathan Kern, Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production
The reason we shouldn’t pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle
—  magic happens at the extremes.
Everything is balanced. Everything physical (matter/energy) goes back and forth in balanced circles, cycles, or the equivalent. Birth-death, old-young, big-small, strong-weak, start-stop, up-down, rich-poor, beginning-end, fast-slow, hot-cold, pain-pleasure, win-lose, day-night, full-empty, high-low, in-out, success-failure, united-divided, give-receive, creation-destruction, on-off, positive-negative, etc.Positive and negative forces moving in balance are the physical universe.
— Michael Smith, The Present
Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love its self, the very love; and that what I call the other unnatural loves, are not loves at all in their own right but become so only so far as they participate in the very love.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Empowered Women 101: A confident and faithful woman that loves herself and knows what she is capable of creating will attract the right man that will want to be part of that plan. God won't bring her a man that she has to mold into what she wants him to be. A relationship is about two people helping one another grow, not just one.
— Shannon L. Alder
Create a state of Bliss where everything is in perfect balance.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
The Judeo-Christian heritage has left us with the view of a universe composed of warring opposites, which are valued as either good or evil. They cannot coexist. A valuable insight of Witchcraft, shared by many earth-based religions, is that polarities are in balance, not at war.
— Starhawk, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
What goes up must come down. But what is up? And what is down? Are you up there looking down on me? Or is it I who has the trick with gravity? Reach for me and I'll reach for you. For in the middle is where grounds stand true. 'Tis not a lie nor a deceived eye, but an understanding between you and I. So I ask again to a friend with a cup, have a drink with me if you know what's up?
— Sean F. Hogan, Painting Angels
So this talk, or touch if I were there,Should work its effortless gadgetry of love,Like Dante’s heaven, and melt into the air.If it doesn’t, of course, I’ve fallen. So much is chance,So much agility, desire, and feverish care,As bicyclists and harpsicordists proveWho only by moving can balance,Only by balancing move.
— Michael Donaghy
We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
It's usually our opposites who complement us best, because they're the only ones who can balance us out.
— Rachel Hollis, Party Girl
Life has its sunshine and its rain, sir... its days and its nights... its peaks and its valleys...
— Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts Guide to Life: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Best-Loved Cartoon Characters
She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life.
— Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
— Maxwell Maltz
never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
My calm is like the tides: never at rest.
— Marty Rubin
She'd made life poignant for the Irish. The terror she inspired gave peace its serenity; the pain she caused gave health its lustre; her failure to love made me grateful for my ability to do so, and I realized, far too late, that though I never did or could have loved her as she might have wished, I should have loved her more.
— Kevin Hearne, Hunted
The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.
— Kat Lahr, Parallelism Of Cyclicality
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Let us learn to adapt our ways to the generosity of Nature. Let us learn to care, yet without letting care itself bring us down. Let us learn to think, yet without letting thought be our only master. Let us learn to die, yet without believing in death.
— Patrick Woodroffe, Hallelujah Anyway
Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
We always believe that there's going to be some high, just around the corner that's going to pull us way, way, way up, where we'll stay forever. If our current romance doesn't do that for us, we'll look for a new one. When the giddy high of the first date wears off, we're ready for another fix.There's no problem with loving something, we coupling up, with enjoying someone's company, and all the rest. But if you want to enjoy all that stuff to the fullest, the best possible way to do it is to stop looking for the big highs, peak experiences, and sweeping flights of blissful romance. All that stuff just causes its own counterreactions. Watch your own body and mind, and you'll see this for yourself.
— Brad Warner, Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist  Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything In Between
Balance how much you give of youself, including volunteer activities.You won't do anyone any good you are stretched too thin.
— Monika Kristofferson
When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.
— Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
Balance is key. In everything you do. Dance all night long and practice yoga the next day. Drink wine but don’t forget your green juice. Eat chocolate when your heart wants it and kale salad when your body needs it. Wear high heels on Saturday and walk barefoot on Sunday. Go shopping at the mall and then sit down and meditate in your bedroom. Live high and low. Move and stay still. Embrace all sides of who you are and live your authentic truth! Be brave and bold and spontaneous and loud and let that complement your abilities to find silence and patience and modesty and peace. Aim for balance. Make your own rules and don’t let anybody tell you how to live according to theirs.
— Rachel Brathen
Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd