Beyond the Rhetoric

“Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.” Words carry a great deal of power and, interestingly enough, sometimes brevity holds even more power than a long drawn-out speech. You are much more likely to capture the attention of your audience if you choose your words [...]

We’ve all heard the saying that we should not only talk the talk, but we should also walk the walk. It’s easy to say that you are going to do something and it’s easy to pay lip service to just about anyone, but it’s another thing altogether when you have to walk what you’re talking. [...]

As children, most of us were told by our parents and other grown-ups that we should always tell the truth. We were taught that lying was bad. Now that we’re a little bit older, the lines aren’t quite so clear. How many of you have told a small fib in order to get a discount [...]