It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In... the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His thoughts, delivered to me From the white coverlet and pillow,... I see now, were inheritances-- Delicate riders of the storm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of convi...ction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I... always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Besides, no matter how much I might speak to Gilberte, she would not hear me. We always believe that, when we speak, it is our ear...s, our mind that listen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »