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Curiosity: “I wonder what would happen if …”
Imagination: “Gee, wouldn’t it be cool if … ?”
Drive: “I will not accept ‘no.’ There has got to be a better way!”
Hacking Work
Bill Jensen and Josh Klein
[Studies have shown](http://www.pnas.org/content/106/14/6008.full) auditory memory is typically inferior to visual memory, and while most of us can read for hours, our ability to focus on a speech is more constrained.
A Speech Is Not an Essay
John Coleman
Public speech is easily reduced to an exercise in caricature, confected and boring, with the volume set too high. Amid this vast ado about nothing, it is little wonder that a decline in the standard of rhetoric is declared. But it is an illusion, and if public speech is boring the proper response is to be thankful.
When They Go Low, We Go High
Philip Collins
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