Parrot Motivational Quotes

Dituntun oleh masa laluku, didorong oleh keberadaanku, aku terbang mencari sesuatu yang tak kuketahui. Antusiasme, rasa ingin tahu, dan harapan menemaniku.

A parrot's gift is to talk; an eagle's gift is to fly. I'd rather be an eagle.

LINKLETTER: Another big difference between alcohol and marijuana is that when people smoke marijuana, they smoke it to get high. When most people drink, they drink to be sociable. NIXON: A person does not drink to get drunk. LINKLETTER: That’s right. NIXON: A person drinks to have fun. This being Nixon, the conversation soon turned racist, with Linkletter in parrot mode: NIXON: Asia, the Middle East, portions of Latin America . . . I’ve seen what drugs have done to those countries. Everybody knows what it’s done to the Chinese. The Indians are hopeless anyway. The Burmese— LINKLETTER: That’s right. NIXON: Why are the Communists so hard on drugs? It’s because they love to booze. I mean, the Russians, they drink pretty good. LINKLETTER: That’s right. NIXON: The Swedes drink too much, the Finns drink too, the British have always been heavy boozers, and the Irish, of course, the most, but on the other hand, they survive as strong races. LINKLETTER: That’s right. NIXON: At least with liquor, I don’t lose motivation.

You don’t ever want to paraphrase while backtracking. Don’t mess with their words. Say EXACTLY what they said to you. Don’t paraphrase, “parrot-phrase.” The secret is using their exact words without sounding like you’re mocking them. Imagine if Sally had paraphrased Eric’s sentence and turned it into: “Oh, so you’ve failed before?” Eric hadn’t said anything about failing, and although “that road” means “failure” to Sally, it might mean something entirely different to Eric. Paraphrasing here is not likely to get the little yes that Sally is after. In fact, it might get her into trouble.