How to build a ship by leading

Image by glennharper via Flickr“If you want to build a ship, don’t divide the work and give orders; teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." -- Antoine Saint-Exupery, as seen in Twitter Like a Butterfly, Text Like a Bee

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Christopher Penn on Email Deliverability

"Engagement as the new deliverability stat puts the ball squarely in the court of the email marketer, which in turn places a premium on effective subject lines to drive that engagement." -- Christopher S. Penn, Director of Strategy, WhatCounts Email Marketing

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Hope feeds the soul

Image via Wikipedia"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death." -- Pearl Buck, as quoted in Reel Parables: Life Lessons from Popular Films (affiliate link), by James Hogan, p. 116

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Seth Godin defines social media

Image by Getty Images via @daylife"Social media is either a time-wasting, wool-gathering, yak-shaving waste of effort or, perhaps, just maybe, it’s a crack in the wall between you and the rest of the world. It’s a choice... up to you." --Seth Godin, "Brainwashed: Seven ways to reinvent yourself"

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One definition of emergency

"In case you don’t know me well enough, an 'emergency' means that something really bad happened, you don’t know what to do, you thought about it, thought through your options, thought about other people who might help you, called them, they couldn’t help you, you prayed about it, didn’t get an answer, considered your options which should include leaving the country or doing something that might land you in jail, decided that leaving the country wouldn’t work and you’re too pretty to go to jail. If you did all of that and it’s not Monday at 8am, then call me." -- via email from owner of a company, in regard to an office move

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Lincoln on Education

"Upon the subject of education... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in." -- Abraham Lincoln

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Poetry defined

"Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new." -- spotted in this TED Talk with Rory Sutherland

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Hope this doesn't make you jealous

"I don't want to brag or make anybody jealous or anything, but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school." -- Anonymous

via e-mail from the Official Mom
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Welcome Twitter followers!

Welcome Twitter followers! I've noticed a number of new friends following QuotesBlog on Twitter within the past few weeks, so I figured I'd say hello in case you stopped by over here.

I'm using Twitter to re-purpose quotations from the archives here on a somewhat daily basis.

ABOUT DANIEL JOHNSON, JR.

I suppose I should share a bit more about me, in case this is your first time here. I have assembled a virtual business card, which shows the complete list, but I've included some background below.

I've been blogging since January 2002 and podcasting since August 2005. I now have more blogs than I care to count. Here is more of me, in case you're interested:

• Daniel Johnson, Jr. - my portfolio blog
• How I Got My Job - Real people sharing real job-hunting success stories
• Journey Inside My Mind Blog and Podcast
• Get That Job! for job-hunting, career development, toolkits, success stories, and the like
• New Media Cincinnati - social media networking group
• Follow danieljohnsonjr on Twitter - more frequent updates of stuff going on with me personally. By the way, if you add me as a friend, please contact me via email or leave a comment here so that I know how you found me.

And of course you can find me on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media networks. I'm always open to connect; just let me know how you found me.

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Dorothy Nevill on what you say and what you don't

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." -- Dorothy Nevill, via Ellen Reddick's Professional Etiquette Newsletter
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