{"quotes":[{"text":"They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. However, who has not hung on a scripture, a quote, a statement, only to stumble upon the key phrase that brought all things to a turning point? The greatest sermons and speeches were pieced together by illuminating thoughts that powered men to surpass their own commonness. It is the sparkling magic of letters forming words, and those words colliding with passion, that makes statements into wisdom.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bits-of-wisdom","brevity-in-emotion","common","communication","connections","emotional-connections","instant-communication","letters","passion","philosophers","positive-thinking","punch","quotes","revelation","scribes","sermons-summarized","simplification","statements","summation-of-thought","technology","thinkers","to-the-point","wisdom","words","writers","writing-craft","writing"],"id":10213,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"My continued respect is only given to those who have proven worthy of it. My respect for another person can be revoked in an instant if warranted and never to be regained again. Tread carefully.","author":"Cindy Welch","tags":["quotes","respect","statements"],"id":57869,"author_id":"Cindy+Welch"},{"text":"Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.","author":"Napoleon Hill","tags":["achieve","attitude","determine","hundreds","mental","mental-attitude","objective","reason","reasons","remember","statements","thoughts","worthwhile","yourself"],"id":147393,"author_id":"Napoleon+Hill"},{"text":"A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["changing-mind","comments","inspiration","invitation","opinions","perspective","quotes","statements","thoughts"],"id":166696,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["accept","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","avoid","extraordinary-men","extraordinary-people","free","freebie","freebies","great-people","human","humans","ignore","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","ordinary-people","philosophy","profound","speeches","statements","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":251837,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"•\tScientific and medical studies, research or evidence is either distorted and misrepresented, or disputed or outright ignored by opponents whose views are threatened by the facts, in public shows of articles, statements, websites and even legislation. Scientific facts are ignored or dismissed as being ‘a liberal agenda’ or ‘merely propaganda’.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["a","and","articles","distorted","facts","in","legislation","liberal","misrepresented","or","outright","propaganda","public","research","scientific","statements","studies","views","websites","whose"],"id":252495,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.","author":"Patty Houser","tags":["beliefs-belief","logic","relationships-between-statements","statements","statements"],"id":447313,"author_id":"Patty+Houser"},{"text":"Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.","author":"Patty Houser","tags":["beliefs-belief","logic","relationships-between-statements","statements","statements"],"id":447313,"author_id":"Patty+Houser"},{"text":"One of the greatest statements you can ever make on earth is to say “I am right, but I may be wrong”. Find out where you go wrong and make corrections!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["correct","corrections","earth","error","errors","food-for-thought","go-wrong","great","israelmore-ayivor","mistake","mistakes","right","right-and-wrong","statements","wrong","wrongly"],"id":480673,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"If you don’t have regular and accurate financial statements, you’re driving your business 100 miles an hour down a one-way street the wrong way, at night, in the fog, without lights.","author":"Jim Blasingame","tags":["business","driving","finances","small-business","statements"],"id":481552,"author_id":"Jim+Blasingame"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}