Motivational & Keynote Speaker Doug Dvorak in the Media

He has also been featured in:

USA Today

The Wall Street Journal

The Chicago Daily Herald

Crain’s Chicago Business

Small Business Journal

The Chicago Tribune

Human Resources Insider

Chicago Sun-Times News Group

The Daily Southtown

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A highly respected motivational speaker,
Doug has been featured on:

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CBS Evening News

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#1 I hope and pray life isn’t one big joke, because I don’t get it.

#11 “Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box”

#21 Alcohol–the cause of and answer to all of life’s problems! – Homer Simpson

#31 A world is not dark because there is no light. It is dark because the bill got lost in the mail.

#41 Each day is unique, and today is no different than any other.

#53 Hope is a waking dream. Daytime television is a waking coma.

#62 Cast thy bread upon the waters and it will come back a BLT

#71 The only difference between fear and courage is about a .20 blood-alcohol level.

#81 Everyone has talent at 25; the difficulty is to have it at 50 – Edgar Degas

#90 We receive love in direct proportion to out ability to afford it.

#1 What really teaches a person is not experience, but getting caught at something.

#11 Anyone can do his work, however hard,for one day. But I know they’re not temps.

#21 If if’s and buts were raisins and nuts then we’d all have a bowl of Granola.

#31 Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.

#41 Aim low, reach your goals, avoid disappointment.

#51 Look both ways before crossing the street, then run like hell.

#60 The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.

#71 That sounds reasonable…time to up my medication.

#81 Reply to everything someone says with, “That’s what you think.”

#90 Sing the “Bananas in Pajamas” theme song, audibly, in public.

#1 Every man is the architect of his own future .– Novalis

#11 Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one . – Buddha

#21 Marriage is the highest mystery. – Novalis

#31 What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

#41 No showflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. – Stanislaus Lezcynski

#51What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight . – Joseph Joubert

#60 Don’t be confused by surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law. – Rainer Maria Rilke

#71 Every man over 40 is responsible for (the disposition of) his face. – Abe Lincoln

#81 In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world. – Franz Kafka

#90 If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Buddha

#101 All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

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