Think on your feet: The art of thinking and speaking under pressure (A Spectrum book)

Quotes from the book Think On Your Feet

"We author our own books, whether we know it or not."

"Within us lie the causes for what happens to us."

"More important than what happens to you or around you is what happens IN you."

"The pain that exists in many people stems from the conflict between what they really are -- expressive, sensitive, gregarious individuals -- and what they have been taught to be by their experience."

"You attract to you the kind of experience that you are thinking about consciously or subconsciously."

"We come to expect too little of ourselves."

"Nonresistance is a loving attitude towards others which recognizes that everyone who comes across our path is there for a reason -- to teach us something about ourselves and our talents."

"Nonresistance means that you raise your consciousness one notch higher."

Communication is the exchange of information, feelings and spirit."

Words communicate information. Attitude conveys feelings."

"By harboring your own personal "enemies list" -- consciously or subconsciously -- you keep yourself out of the flow of the creative process."

Ken Wydro is a playwright who lives in New York City. He has been an instructor at the City University of New York and has studied professional theater with Lee Strasberg and David LeGrant. He has conducted effective speaking seminars for numerous corporations, including General Foods, Avon Products, IBM, and AT&T.