Tell a thousand people to ...

Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
 Catherine the Great

More phrases

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.
 Catherine the Great
The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.
 Catherine the Great
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.
 Catherine the Great