Susan Young Quotes

Your healthy self-esteem is one of the most significant and powerful drivers in your life. It drives your perceptions, attitudes, opinions, relationships, communications, and your decisions. ~ Susan C. Young

Your first impressions will often occur within a limited window of opportunity - and if you blow it - the opportunity may be lost forever. ~ Susan C. Young

Why leave your success up to dumb luck or accident when you can take a stand, make a plan, and be proactive in your pursuits and possibilities? ~ Susan C. Young

Discover an interest, a passion, a preference or need your client has, and take the time to give them some small item related to it. By making the extra effort to learn about the person and their business, you become very appealing and much more memorable. ~ Susan C. Young

What steps can you take to prepare before meeting others to ensure that when you do show up, you are bringing your very best to the table? ~ Susan C. Young

The challenge of being authentic for people pleasers is that we really want people to like and accept us. Being vulnerable, however, requires that we come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to like us, and that it is okay. Not everyone needs to like us. ~ Susan C. Young

Get outside your comfort zone. Stretch beyond your norm and try new things. ~ Susan C. Young

Preparation will not only fortify your confidence to approach life from a position of strength, but it will impress other people as well. ~ Susan C. Young

Your mindset brings together your attitude, perceptions, experience, interpretations, opinions, beliefs, values, and understanding to determine how you think, act, walk, talk, behave, and engage. ~ Susan C. Young

Many people go through life complaining, whining, and obsessing so much about what they don't have that they are doing exactly what it takes to block it. ~ Susan C. Young

Embrace change and practice flexibility. It will make you more agile in adapting to new people and situations. ~ Susan C. Young

It is no longer a matter of IF you have a personal brand--it is a question of "How is it working for you?" Does it best express your intentions, your uniqueness, and your service offering? Is it helping or hindering your progress and success in business? ~ Susan C. Young

Few places are more important for dressing appropriately than the workplace, where a professional appearance is crucial. ~ Susan C. Young

Living in the age of the Internet and being a part of the information generation, we have unlimited access to an unprecedented wealth of knowledge and learning. We have no excuse to show up to an appointment, a sales call, a date, or an important meeting without learning everything we can to tip the odds in our favor. ~ Susan C. Young

A high self-esteem can quickly deteriorate into egotism, arrogance, and an over-confidence that can backfire and turn people off. ~ Susan C. Young

How you accessorize your wardrobe can transform the plainest outfit into a dazzling, unforgettable impression. It can be the mark of your own unique style, an extra splash of fashion, or an expression of your mood. ~ Susan C. Young

If you are lacking confidence in something, just keep trying and don't give up. ~ Susan C. Young

The importance of reviewing is apparent and proven. However, the majority of people do not do it in their own lives. Do you want to live your best life now? Take deliberate action and begin to REVIEW where you have been, where you are now, and where you would like to be. ~ Susan C. Young

Don't you love the sense of personal power you feel when you've got your act together? When your life is in order, you're organized, and you have everything you need? ~ Susan C. Young

Which outfits do you get the most compliments on when you are wearing them? What colors make you feel healthy, vibrant, and alive? ~ Susan C. Young

Dress confidently in clothes that make you feel great about yourself. When you look better you feel better. ~ Susan C. Young

There are few things more important than being prepared - for an interview, an important meeting, selling your home, a new baby - the list goes on. ~ Susan C. Young

By performing a simple Google search, a website review, a visit to their LinkedIn profile, or a media release search on the person you are about to meet, you can find out where they've been, what they care about, and where they're going. Whether you learn an interesting fact about a hobby they enjoy, the breed of their dog, or something you both have in common, it will show that you took the time to research and that you care about them as a person. ~ Susan C. Young

We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in. ~ Susan C. Young

Set goals to create a clear sense of purpose and direction. ~ Susan C. Young

Prime yourself for success and demonstrate to others that you are diligent, reliable, and trustworthy. ~ Susan C. Young

Does your appearance accurately convey the message of who you are that you are trying to get across? When trying to make an excellent first impression in business but in doubt of what to wear, dress one level up from what is expected - if it's casual, dress in business casual, etc. ~ Susan C. Young

Just as your body has self-regulating mechanisms, like perspiring to cool you down and shivering to warm you up, you can regulate your emotions according to the circumstances. You can abstain from over-reacting, and you know how to set boundaries and how to say "no. ~ Susan C. Young

If you want to be successful, how you show up to life matters. ~ Susan C. Young

Being prepared and sharing your knowledge earns the confidence of those who are interviewing you, depend on your expertise, or seek you out for solutions, answers, or presentations. ~ Susan C. Young

Prepare for Success. Feel the satisfaction and power of having your act together! Get organized beforehand to get better results. Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance. ~ Susan C. Young

Learn to leverage the Law of Cause and Effect to your advantage in positive ways! ~ Susan C. Young

Doing your research ahead of time shows that you care about your client and your reputation. Referencing this information will better enable you to ask relevant questions and link their answers to your product or service to create a win-win situation. ~ Susan C. Young

What is YOUR personal brand? How are you packaging your unique talents, style, personality and/or products to represent who you are, what you do, and how you show yourself to the world? ~ Susan C. Young

When you feel great about you, personal qualities radiate that make you more attractive and compelling to others. ~ Susan C. Young

If there is someone whom you would really like to impress, learn as much as you can to be informed, enlightened, and aware of them before you meet. ~ Susan C. Young

Would you like to feel a calm confidence when you walk into a room full of strangers, knowing that you can start new a conversation with anyone? ~ Susan C. Young

Whether it is in the way you walk, talk, dress, or behave, your personal brand impacts how people react and respond to you. It is the essence of what makes you likable, knowable, and trustworthy. And it is what can make you memorable and sought after in the marketplace. ~ Susan C. Young

Are you ready to explore what it takes to move beyond where you are to where you want to be? You came to the right place. ~ Susan C. Young

Emotionally intelligent people have an ability to manage stress as it happens and remain calm through chaos. ~ Susan C. Young

There can be a fine line between being confident and cocky. ~ Susan C. Young

Emotionally intelligent people think before they speak and exercise discretion. ~ Susan C. Young

Give yourself and others the gift of your brilliance to deliver a more compelling and memorable presentation. ~ Susan C. Young

Care enough to take deliberate steps and get ready through thoughtful discipline, research, organization, and effort. It will impress others and give you the winner's edge to live and give your best. ~ Susan C. Young

For some, putting in the time or work to be prepared and live deliberately is natural. For others? It's work. However, as in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done. ~ Susan C. Young

Knowledge imparts a sense of authority. It will help you stand out and give you an edge over your competition. ~ Susan C. Young

As you jump new hurdles, you gain greater confidence. Confidence can be achieved like any other practiced skill. ~ Susan C. Young

Emotionally intelligent people hold themselves accountable for their behavior, failures, decisions, and successes. ~ Susan C. Young

Did Jonathan not realize that sometimes a girl didn't want to be honorable? That sometimes young women had the same desires and needs as young men? ~ Courtney Brandt

This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free. ~ Edward Young

It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no chance of defense. We should all be dead. I thought I should like to see us all dead, one on top of the other. A pyramid of flesh with the whitefolks on the bottom, as the broad base, then the Indians with their silly tomahawks and teepees and wigwams and treaties, the Negroes with their mops and recipes and cotton sacks and spirituals sticking out of their mouths. The Dutch children should all stumble in their wooden shoes and break their necks. The French should choke to death on the Louisiana Purchase (1803) while silkworms ate all the Chinese with their stupid pigtails. As a species, we were an abomination. All of us. ~ Maya Angelou

One large cat bounded up the side of the outcrop to stand in full view on an overhanging boulder. She stared down at them, inside their protective enclosure, tilting her head from side to side. Her scarred yellow-brown coat was immaculately groomed, but the long tufting hair of her snout was matted with the bright red smear of uncongealed blood from a recent kill. Her upper lip curved over the top of foot-long saber teeth. ~ P.J. Parker

I was young, and I was damaged, and I couldn't imagine being not young, and not damaged. ~ Chris Pavone

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it. ~ Buck Leonard

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause. ~ Stephen Kinzer

That young man will come back for you one day, you'll see. And if he doesn't, there are plenty more fish in the sea."
"Don't…want…a…fish," I choked.
"Of course you don't," she agreed soothingly. "Nasty smelly things. Now, don't cry too hard. You'll only make your nose red, and then if he does come to see you, he'll think you as ugly as can be. ~ Victoria Lamb

I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world. ~ Patricia McCormick

Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble. ~ Karin Slaughter

At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Disease has no intent. It doesn't want anything. It has no malevolent desire to kill. If it could talk it would not say "I want to make you ill. I want to bring you to the brink of death. I want to kill." It would say only "I make people ill. I bring them to the brink of death. I can kill."

The disease is like machine that does what it does, but has no cognizance of self. When a machine stops working, it does not care, and it doesn't celebrate when it starts working again.

To those that have it, and to their loved ones, the disease seems heinous, deliberate,and personal. And of course I know why they feel this way... when you are in a fight for your life, then surely there is an adversary. There is something opposed to you. Something that desires to defeat you. You want to believe the enemy is the disease. You don't want to believe, even for a minute, that the enemy is your own body. This weak tent of flesh, that cannot stand up against a speck of contagion. This fragile weave of muscle, bone, and soul, that also cannot resist the power of flame, nor the pull of the ground below it. ~ Susan Meissner

Now young people have the Internet and a zillion phone apps so you don't need an actual place to congregate. You can be everywhere, nowhere, a floating message-spewing entity. We used to rely on drugs to get that sensation. ~ Christopher Bollen

From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the truth', 'cos you don't know any difference, so there's a real confidence in your way of thinking. ~ Agyness Deyn

The qualities that make for excellence in children's literature can be summed up in a single word: imagination. And imagination as it relates to the child is, to my mind, synonymous with fantasy. Contrary to most of the propaganda in books for the young, childhood is only partly a time of innocence. It is, in my opinion, a time of seriousness, bewilderment, and a good deal of suffering. It's also possibly the best of all times. Imagination for the child is the miraculous, freewheeling device he uses to course his way through the problems of every day ... It's through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. ~ Maurice Sendak

No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here's a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages
1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn't stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.
3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on "Bright Eyes."
4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.
8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.
9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.
11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16) ~ Pablo

When we're young, and we dream of love and fulfillment, we think perhaps of moon-drenched Parisian nights or walks along the beach at sundown. No one tells us that the greatest moments of a lifetime are fleeting, unplanned and nearly always catch us off guard. ~ Jean Harper

Even with all that fine living, that fire stayed with my mama. Caught her up in the night as a child and woke her sweating and screaming. That's why I don't buy it when people say children don't know. That they're too young to understand. If they can walk and talk, they can understand. You look at how much growing a baby does in the first few years of its life - crawling, walking, talking, laughing. The brain just changing and changing. You can't tell me all of it's not becoming a part of their blood. Their memory. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. ~ Susan Faludi

Mr. Dabney could write to ~ Susan Meissner

We're still us," I managed, blinking back tears.
"I don't want there to be any awkwardness between us."
"There won't be. I won't let there be if you won't."
"Good, Sweetheart. Good. We'll just forget about this. It didn't mean anything. ~ Samantha Young

People have to understand how important it is for kids to be nurtured by their mom and dad and get the great role modeling when they are young. ~ Tony Dungy

I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me. ~ Alan Alda

She wanted to explain everything to him - how certain notes of the Moonlight Sonata shredded her heart like wind inside a paper bag; how her soul felt as endless and deep as the sea churning on their left; how the sight of the young Muslim couple filled her with an emotion that was equal parts joy and sadness; and above all, how she wanted a marriage that was different from the dead sea of marriages she saw all around her, how she wanted something finer, deeper, a marriage made out of silk and velvet instead of coarse cloth, a marriage made of clouds and stardust and red earth and ocean foam and moonlight and sonatas and books and art galleries and passion and kindness and sorrow and ecstasy and of fingers touching from under a burqua. ~ Thrity Umrigar

As a young person, I feel it necessary to show the great nation that we live in that there doesn't need to be this kind of violence and hatred in our world. And that loving one another doesn't mean that we have to compromise our beliefs; it simply means that we choose to be compassionate and respectful of others. ~ Judy Shepard

Only the young think they know anything about wisdom. ~ Nora Roberts

Entomologists have a name for young flies, but it is an ugly name, an insult. Let's not use the word "maggot." Let's use a pretty word. Let's use "hacienda. ~ Mary Roach

Dad. I love that you aren't afraid to carry around romance novels with almost-naked men on the cover and hand them out as "tips" to waitresses, hairdressers, and anyone else you come across. Thanks for being one of my biggest fans. ~ Susan Stoker

They fell in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose ~ Rainbow Rowell

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music. ~ Zac Hanson

And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness. ~ Dorothy Day

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace. ~ Margaret Atwood

I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet. ~ Rand Paul

Magic is all about words and believing. If you believe then anything is possible. ~ Jennifer Loiske

A piece of rusty pump and a pile of stones,
all that was left of the place he and Marthy had called home. Home. What a big word that was. Lots of attempts made lately to belittle it. Plenty of fun poked at it. Young folks laughed about it,
called it a place to park. Everybody wanted to get some place else, seemed like. They'd find out. They'd understand some day. When they got old, they'd know. They'd want to go home. sometimes in their lives everybody wanted to go home. ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich

I am sometimes asked about the concept or definition of a 'public intellectual,' and though I find the whole idea faintly silly, I believe it should ideally mean that the person so identified is self-sustaining and autonomously financed. Susan was pre-eminently one such. ~ Christopher Hitchens

When you're young, you want to convince everyone that you're right and they're wrong. As you get older, it's not important if you are right or wrong, it's important that you work together with other people and get something done. ~ Gino Vannelli

She never choose anything except her husband, her motherhood and her trust in God. The rest of it was put upon her and she bears it and does her best. ~ Susan Fletcher

In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor. ~ Edward Young

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. ~ Edward Young

I don't see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they'd have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin. ~ Ian Holloway