10/14 顧客服務──服務業金言

  • 不要嘗試告訴顧客他要什麼。你想變得聰明,就明智地去淋個浴,然後出門上班,服務顧客!
    Don’t try to tell the customer what he wants. If you want to be smart, be smart in the shower. Then get out, go to work, and serve the customer!(Gene Buckley)
  • 你最不快樂的顧客,就是你學習功課的最大來源。(比爾蓋茨)
    Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.(Bill Gates)
  • 對待顧客,像你想被對待的樣子。就醬!
    Treat the customer like you would want to be treated. Period!(Brad Schweig)
  • 優秀的顧客服務,是任何一個公司首要的職務!它是公司的定位,是顧客會再來的原因。沒有顧客就沒有公司!
    Excellent customer service is the number one job in any company! It is the personality of the company and the reason customers come back. Without customers there is no company!(Connie Elder)
  • 顧客服務的成功之鑰在於,當一位顧客離開時,他心裡想著:「哇!我喜歡跟這群人作生意,我要把這經驗跟別人分享。」
    The key is when a customer walks away, thinking “Wow, I love doing business with them, and I want to tell others about the experience.”(Shep Hyken)
  • 穿他們的鞋子走路。
    Put yourself in their shoes.(Jesse Harrison)
  • 常帶著感謝的心。
    Always have an attitude of gratitude.(James R. Nowlin)
  • 顧客服務不該是公司的一個部門,而應該是整個公司。
    Customer service should not be a department. It should be the entire company.(Tony Hsieh)
  • 花一些時間與顧客面對面談話,你將訝異於有那麼多公司從不聆聽他們顧客的心聲。
    Spend a lot of time talking to customers face-to-face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.(Ross Perot)
  • 常常這樣開始話頭:您介意我請教幾個問題,好使我能更好地服務您嗎?
    Always begin with: So that I can better serve you, do you mind if I ask a few questions?(Jodie Shaw)

9/30 You Are Special

Quotes of Max Lucado, Author of《You Are Special》

  • 你不是意外產生的,你不是大批製造的成品,你不是從生產線出來的產品;你是精心設計出來的,被賦予特別的恩賜,是那位偉大的工匠大師以愛將你擺在地球上的。
    You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.
  • 神照你的本相愛你,但祂不願意你留在那樣的光景中,祂想要你像耶穌。
    God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.
  • 要指揮管弦樂團,你必須背對著群眾。
    To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.
  • 降低對地球的期望,這裡不是天堂,別期望它成為天堂。
    Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.
  • 再次成為小孩子吧,裝可愛、傻笑,將餅乾浸在牛奶裡,午睡一下,當你傷害到人時說聲對不起,去追逐一隻蝴蝶,再次成為小孩子吧。
    Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.
  • 請記得,你是特別的,因為我創造了你,而我是不會出差錯的。
    Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.

9/16 你很特別

《你很特別》作者路卡杜的金言雋語:

  • 一個女人的心,應該是那麼隱藏在神裡面,以致男人需要去尋求神,才能找到她。
    A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
  • 信仰,並不是相信神會成全你所願的,而是相信神會做正確的事。
    Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
  • 你是神獨一的創造,神打碎模具來製作你。
    You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.
  • 饒恕並給出去,如同那是你最後的機會;要像沒有明天一樣地去愛,倘若明天還是臨到,就再去愛。
    Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
  • 饒恕是打開門,釋放某人得以自由,並意識到囚犯是你自己!
    Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
  • 如果上帝有冰箱,你的照片會貼在上面;如果祂有個皮夾子,你的照片會放在裡面。每個春天,祂送花給你;每個清晨,祂賜你陽光。留心這件事吧,朋友,神為你而瘋狂!
    If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!

9/2 藝術5

  • 如果一個人不是偉大的雕刻家或畫家,他就不可能成為一位建築師。如果他不是雕刻家或畫家,那麼他不過是一位蓋房子的人而已。
    No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. (John Ruskin)
  • 藝術使我們找到自己,但同時也使我們失去自己。(梅頓)
    Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.(Thomas Merton,《No Man Is an Island》)
  • 藝術將每天生活中,靈魂沾染到的灰塵洗除。(畢卡索)
    Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.(Pablo Picasso)
  • 藝術不是我們所看見的,而是我們使別人看見的。
    Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.(Edgar Degas,印象派畫家愛德加)
  • 藝術是世界上惟一嚴肅的東西;藝術家則是惟一從不嚴肅的人。(王爾德)
    Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.(Oscar Wilde)
  • 創意需要勇氣。(馬諦斯,法國畫家)
    Creativity takes courage. (Henri Matisse)

8/19 藝術4

  • 只要你能想像的東西,都是真實的。(畢卡索)
    Everything you can imagine is real.(Pablo Picasso)
  • 每個小孩都是藝術家;問題是他長大後,是否能繼續作個藝術家。(畢卡索)
    Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.(Pablo Picasso)
  • 繪畫是看得見過於去感受的詩;詩是看不見但能感受的繪畫。(達文西)
    Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.(Leonardo da Vinci)
  • 畫家應該先以塗滿黑色來開始在畫布上作畫;因為大自然的一切都是黑暗的,直到光來照亮它。(達文西)
    A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.(Leonardo da Vinci)
  • 藝術是個使我們能認知真理的謊言。(畢卡索)
    Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.(Pablo Picasso)
  • 我們所能有的最美妙的經歷,就是奧祕的經歷;它是站在真實藝術與真實科學的搖藍之間,基礎的情感。(愛因斯坦)
    The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.(Albert Einstein,《The World As I See It》)
  • 我夢著繪畫,我畫出我的夢。(梵谷)
    I dream my painting and I paint my dream.(Vincent Van Gogh)

8/5 藝術3

  • 在我們的想像中,這世界只是一塊畫布而已(梭羅,美國作家)。
    This world is but a canvas to our imagination.(Henry David Thoreau)
  • 創造力允許你犯一些錯,而藝術使你知道哪些要保留下來。
    Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.(Scott Adams,美國卡通畫家)
  • 如果你聽見你裡頭有聲音說:「你不會畫圖。」那麼你應該想辦法去畫,那個聲音就會靜默下來。(梵谷)
    If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.(Vincent Van Gogh)
  • 真實的藝術作品,只不過是神聖完全的影像。(米開蘭基羅)
    The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.(Michelangelo)
  • 有些畫家會將太陽變成一個黃色的區塊;另一些畫家則將一個黃色區塊變成太陽。(畢卡索)
    Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.(Pablo Picasso)
  • 我發現我能以色彩和形狀來表達無法以其他任何方式表達的事物──就是那些說不出來的事物。
    I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.(Georgia O'Keeffe,美國藝術家)
  • 藝術家貯藏著來自各方,來自天空、地球、碎紙片、一個閃現的形狀、蜘蛛網的情感。(畢卡索)
    The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.(Pablo Picasso)

7/22 藝術2

  • 起初你作畫,是因為你從世上的景物看見天堂。你的畫所以成功,乃是因為它使別人也看見天堂。起初你愛的是光本身,你愛繪畫是因為你把它當做表現光的一種方法。(魯益師C.S.Lewis,《The Great Divorce》)
  • 每一位詩人、音樂家、和藝術家,若非上帝的恩典,常會被引誘,由喜愛他所表現的事物,轉而喜愛表現,直到他們墮落到地獄的深淵,再也無法對上帝感興趣,而只對他們所說的有關上帝的事感興趣。因為他們不會止於對繪畫感興趣而已,他們會越陷越深,變成對自己的個性有興趣,甚至對自己的聲望有興趣。(魯益師C.S.Lewis,《The Great Divorce》)
  • 你若到上帝的聖山中間飲那如同「遺忘川Lethe」的泉水,你將忘記自己作品的所有權,你欣賞它們就好像那是別人的作品一樣;沒有驕傲,也沒有謙遜。(魯益師C.S.Lewis,《The Great Divorce》)

7/8 藝術1

  • 所有的藝術都是無用處的。(王爾德)
    All art is quite useless. (Oscar Wilde)
  • 如果一個藝術家在他自己裡面看不見東西,他應該停止繪畫他眼前所見的東西。
    If the artist sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him. (Caspar David Friedrich)
  • 不勤奮的生活是一種罪惡,而勤奮的生活若缺了藝術,就變成野蠻了。
    Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality. (John Ruskin)
  • 藝術不是生活中的麵包,而是生活中的美酒。
    Art is not the bread, but the wine of life. (Jean Paul Richter)
  • 藝術是「我」;科學是「我們」。
    Art is I; Science is We. (Claude Bernard)
  • 藝術的目的,不是要表達事物的外在形貌,而是事物內在的真義。(亞里斯多德)
    The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. (Aristotle)
  • 一切藝術,都不過是大自然的仿製品。(辛尼加,羅馬哲學家)
    All art is but imitation of nature. (Seneca)
  • 人是用他的頭腦繪畫,而不是用手。(米開蘭基羅)
    A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. (Michelangelo)
  • 藝術家不是照事物的本身來看它們,而是用他所是的來看這些事物。
    The artist doesn’t see things as they are, but as he is.

6/24 《交換明天》校園出版

  • 根據傳記作家Kathleen Powers Erickson的說法,梵谷終其一生信仰執著。
  • 他在1875~1880間擔任牧師,1880離開教會時摒棄的不是信仰,而是那些偽善的神職人員,包括他過去景仰的父親與叔叔(都是牧師)。事實上他被教會辭退牧職的主要原因,是他講道的口才不好。
  • 他的朋友高更(也是偉大畫家)論梵谷時,說「他的荷蘭頭腦充滿了聖經。」
  • 他在生前最後一次講道時說:「我們都是客旅,人生是一段從地到天的漫長旅程。我總覺得自己像個旅人,要往某個地方,去某個目的地。」
  • 他說:「對我而言,霍亂、結核病、癌症等,都像是屬天的移動工具,年紀老邁而安靜死去,就是徒步上天堂。」
  • 悲哀的是他似乎覺得徒步上天堂太慢了,最後選擇自殺。他一生的痛苦、孤寂,跟尼采不相上下,但他的信心卻與尼采的無神論思想形成強烈對比。

6/10 考生秘笈

  1. 切忌心煩氣躁,每天清晨起來,用十分鐘安靜坐一會兒;聖經說:「你們得力在乎平靜安穩。」
  2. 開始讀書之前,想一想,現在要加強哪一科,不要漫無目標地讀。
  3. 語文科目像英文國文,建議你出聲朗讀,你口說、眼看、耳聽,使你得著三重印象;林肯就是這樣讀報讀書的。至於數學理化科目,建議你思考之外多演算,有些人是藉此得以開竅的。
  4. 若擔心考試前一晚,會因緊張而失眠,建議你在考前一週左右,開始將生活作息調成跟考試當天接近的時間。
  5. 壓力大或覺得緊繃時,找個地方大聲喊一喊,高歌一曲更能紓解壓力,或是朗讀一點詩詞,像聖經大衛的詩篇就很好。
  6. 考前幾天預備個袋子,將准考證等東西放進去,就不用擔心考試當天會忘記,心也會比較安定,不致影響情緒。
  7. 最後,不要忘了祈禱!我們也都會為你祈禱,求主保守你的身心靈都能安靜舒暢,考試時能充分發揮實力,並得著上頭來的幫助。
  8. 考完,別忘了向上主說聲謝謝!如果覺得沒考好,千萬不要灰心喪志,所有的壓力都不會是永恆的,你總會走出路來的;當上帝關上一道門時,祂總會為你開一扇窗的。

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