Precis Writing Quotes

#1. The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

Al Pacino

#2. There are places where cops are not hated, Captain. But in those places you wouldn't be a cop.

Raymond Chandler

#3. Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

Hugh Prather

#4. Back when we started, people didn't even know what a submarine sandwich was. The product was only sold in a few markets.

Fred DeLuca

#5. A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.

David Bowie

#6. Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

Giraldus Cambrensis

#7. Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.

Paul Smoker

#8. The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#9. If you want to raise your standard of living, raise your standard of giving

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#10. It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them.

Philip Kotler