#occasions

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#advantage #affect #arise #clarity #communication skills

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #certain #government #i #i wish

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#activities #aspects #concerns #ensure #fully

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#away #believe #commit #corners #daughters

The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people. ↗

— Joseph Brant

#been #great #his #king #loyalty

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be. ↗

— Brian Clough

#big #big head #call #get #head

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#am #best #cannot #carriage #during

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done. ↗

— Buck Owens

#different #done #dream #getting #her

There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is. ↗

— Christian Bale

#been #clearly #disrespectful #even #i

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine