Michael Bungay Stanier Quotes

#1. This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it's got a limited chance of making its way into your brain's hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.

Michael Bungay Stanier

#2. Silence is often a measure of success.

Michael Bungay Stanier

#3. Knowing Charlie, she wouldn't have gotten a tattoo unless it really meant something to her. It had to be something she knew she would never grow tired of. Never stop loving.

Colleen Hoover

#4. It was the product of a mind that was not merely twisted, but actually sprained.

Douglas Adams

#5. When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done. LOU HOLTZ

Michael Bungay Stanier

#6. Five times a second, at an unconscious level, your brain is scanning the environment around you and asking itself: Is it safe here? Or is it dangerous?

Michael Bungay Stanier

#7. In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

Ben Folds

#8. He beat into her swiftly and powerfully as his hardness overflowed in her burning canyon.

Scarlet Chill

#9. You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

Patrick McGoohan

#10. In the evening, I would tell my patients, sleep with the angels. In the morning, I would say to each as the French farmers still do, "Good morning to your and your companion" - meaning, of course, their angel.

Eileen Elias Freeman

#11. In his book Getting Things Done, David Allen shares a crucial insight: "You can't do a project. You can only do the next step.

Michael Bungay Stanier