Famous phrases

Have you ever tried to coin a famous English phrase, only to find yourself lost in a sea of words? Crafting a memorable saying isn't easy, and neither is nailing its pronunciation. Learn from the best.

Phrases about

leadership

"The other thing that confident people realize is the temporal aspect of leadership."

"It's like cosigning the woman in the meeting, you know, the woman who can't seem to get her word out, or just making sure that other person who can't make a point is being heard."

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

"We have to flip the leadership playbook."

Phrases about

management

"There's an enormous amount of data around contingency management. What is that?"

"So working with your family around contingency management can be very effective."

"Do you view cancer as an unmitigated catastrophe, or do you view cancer as manageable or perhaps even an opportunity."

Phrases about

motivation

"There's an enormous amount of data around contingency management. What is that?"

"So working with your family around contingency management can be very effective."

"Do you view cancer as an unmitigated catastrophe, or do you view cancer as manageable or perhaps even an opportunity."

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Phrases about

confidence

"Where do we get those confident gestures?"

"We can become confident through our own achievements."

"We can become confident by going beyond our boundaries."

"I have seen elderly people in their 90s who are very confident."

"The more confident you became, the wider your fingers were spreading."

"I mean, I have seen people in wheelchairs that are supremely confident."

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Phrases about

correctness

"We can talk to people that disagree with us."

Celeste Headlee

"Take some responsibility for the information on which you base your opinions."

Celeste Headlee

"We can talk to people who fundamentally disagree with us, and we can do it without arguing."

Celeste Headlee

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Phrases about

empathy

"Empathy is when you say to them: "I feel with you"."

Celeste Headlee

"And it's made millions of women join in and say, "Me Too." So, a shout-out to Tarana Burke for igniting that movement."

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

"It is part of vulnerability, but it's actually a practice: gratitude."

Phrases about

engagement

""Is meditation effective in retraining dopamine regulation?" - So meditation is something that requires effortful engagement, and it has been shown to increase dopamine levels, and I would consider it."

"And one of the things that we teach, is if you want people to listen to you, use cadence, to get their attention, hold their attention, but then look forward to what that next set of words will be."

"That it's not only that physiology changes, it's also that your attention changes."

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Phrases about

happiness

"But I have seen so much evidence that self-awareness gives us a much better shot at finding happiness and success in this crazy world."

"My team and I had just run a simple study looking at the relationship between introspection and things like happiness, stress and job satisfaction."

"And I came back to a viral post and people being like, "Oh my God, I'm so glad somebody finally said this." And it started a conversation about mental health and self-care, and I was like, "OK. Alright."

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Phrases about

inspiration

"But I have seen so much evidence that self-awareness gives us a much better shot at finding happiness and success in this crazy world."

"My team and I had just run a simple study looking at the relationship between introspection and things like happiness, stress and job satisfaction."

"And I came back to a viral post and people being like, "Oh my God, I'm so glad somebody finally said this." And it started a conversation about mental health and self-care, and I was like, "OK. Alright."

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Phrases about

manifestation

"I'm going to talk to you a little bit about vulnerability."

"There's a chance we're going to end up naked hitchhiking because this conference may manifest our trip here." I am going to talk about daring classrooms and what I believe courage looks like and is."

"In fact, as Bastian put it, it is far more important to communicate when you don't have the answers than when you do."

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Phrases about

clarity

"Work hard, move into uncomfortable territory, and understand each other."

Celeste Headlee

"It's the ability to see ourselves clearly, to understand who we are, how others see us and how we fit into the world."

"So to understand this, let's look at the most common introspective question: "Why?" We might be searching for the cause of a bad mood."

"As human beings, we are blessed with the ability to understand who we are, what we want to contribute, and the kind of life we want to lead."

"So it's important for patients to understand what that means and to realize that even intense psychological discomfort is time limited."

"But as humans, we need these simplifying systems to help us understand a complex reality."