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Clara Hughes: Medals are things I send to my mom
“In my heart it is clear to me why I go to the line time and again. I can assure you it’s not a medal hanging around my neck I’m after. Medals are things I send to my mom in Winnipeg, which she in turn shares with friends and family. They are not what provide…
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W Somerset Maugham: People want praise
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.” —W Somerset Maugham.
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Joseph Conrad: Conscience
“All a man can betray is his conscience.” —Joseph Conrad.
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Mary Kay Ash: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT
“Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine him or her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT! I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.” —Mary Kay Ash.
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Ann Patchett: Disturb the world around you
“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.” —Ann Patchett.
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Harvey Finkelstein: Energy vampires and energy catalysts
“I can’t be everything to everyone. I kind of made peace with it years ago—that at this particular phase of my life, this is what I need and this is what I want. It’s also the reason why I’m very particular about who I spend my time with because I do believe that there are…
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Steve Jobs: Inner voice
“Don’t let the opinions of other people’s voice drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”— Steve Jobs.
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Frank Capra: Drama
“I made mistakes…I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”— Frank Capra.
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Anuradha Roy: Good fiction
“I think in good fiction, it’s possible to fit a universe into a teacup.” —Anuradha Roy.
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Dr. Julie Gurner: All in
“A mindset that separates the top one percent from ‘most people’ is seeing threats as personal challenges. Most people see a threat and become more careful. Top players see those same things as personal challenges that they will dominate. They run into them head on. All in.”— Dr. Julie Gurner.
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Bruce Lee: Use only that which works
“Use only that which works and take it from any place you can find it.” —Bruce Lee.
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Victor Borge: Smile
“The shortest distance between two people is a smile.” —Victor Borge.
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Eugene Ionesco: Ideologies separate us
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” —Eugene Ionesco.
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Leo Tolstoy: Many kinds of love
“I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.
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Joseph Wood Krutch: Bloody mass of fur or feathers
“How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?” —Joseph Wood Krutch.
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Dharmendra: Make me a dictator
“Make me a dictator for five years and I would remove all the dirt from the Indian politics and make it clean.” —Dharmendra.
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Lewis Mumford: Man of courage
“A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.” —Lewis Mumford.
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Arundhati Roy: Colored cloth
“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.” —Arundhati Roy.
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Charles Kingsley: Chief requirements of life
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” —Charles Kingsley.
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Burt Rutan: Testing leads to failure
“Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.” ― Burt Rutan.
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Ken Griffin: Extra mile
“Often it’s the person who goes the extra mile who comes to the right conclusion. That’s grit, it’s perseverance, it’s determination. It’s making the effort. One of the things we emphasize is what do you need to do, what extra steps do you need to take to get to the right conclusion faster than those…
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Vincent Van Gogh: Sight of the stars
“I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” —Vincent Van Gogh.
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Norman Thomas: Symbolic gesture
“If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag, wash it.” —Norman Thomas.
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David Ogilvy: Memos
“The longer your memos, the less likely they are to be read by men who have the power to act on them.” —David Ogilvy.
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Holmes Rolston III: Destroying species
“Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.” —Holmes Rolston III.
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George Leonard: Be willing to look foolish
“It’s possible that one of the reasons you got on the path of mastery was to look good. But to learn something new of any significance, you have to be willing to look foolish.[…]If you’re always thinking about appearances, you can never attain the state of concentration that’s necessary for effective learning and top performance.”…
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Terrance Hayes: Decathletes of literature
“Poets are like the decathletes of literature.” —Terrance Hayes.
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Pablo Neruda: Spring
“YOU CAN CUT ALL THE FLOWERS BUT YOU CAN’T KEEP SPRING FROM COMING.”—PABLO NERUDA.
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Isamu Noguchi: Landscape
“We are a landscape of all we have seen.” —Isamu Noguchi.
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Robert Greenleaf: Good leaders
“Good leaders must first become good servants.”—Robert Greenleaf.
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Raphael Warnock: Housing
“Housing is stability. Housing is dignity. Housing is absolutely necessary, critical infra[structure].”—RAPHAEL WARNOCK.
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Justin Welsh: Confusion
“The people who inspire you most are probably just as confused as you are. They just decided confusion wasn’t a good enough reason to stay stagnant.” —Justin Welsh.
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Claude Monet: Simply necessary to love
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” —Claude Monet.
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Cass Canfield: Scrambled eggs
“Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.” —CASS CANFIELD
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Collecting shells
“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.” —Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Bojan Tunguz: Root of all learning
“Variability is the root of all learning. Nothing is more counterproductive to learning than a high level of uniformity.”—Bojan Tunguz.
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David Sedaris: Everyone looks retarded
“EVERYONE LOOKS RETARDED ONCE YOU SET YOUR MIND TO IT.”— DAVID SEDARIS.
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William L McKnight: Give people the room they need
“If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.” —William L. McKnight.
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Dan Martell: Life version
“The version of your life you tolerate becomes the version you’re stuck with.” —Dan Martell.
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Oliver Goldsmith: Better sermon
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” —Oliver Goldsmith.
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Elizabeth Zwicky: Frightening
“The only thing more frightening than a programmer with a screwdriver or a hardware engineer with a program is a user with a pair of wire cutters and the root password.” —Elizabeth Zwicky.
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Carl Sagan: Bamboozled
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a…
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Woody Allen: If God exists
“IF GOD EXISTS, I HOPE HE HAS A GOOD EXCUSE.” —WOODY ALLEN.
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Johnny Carson: Phone calls taper off
“For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.” —JOHNNY CARSON.
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Albert Camus: Nationalist
“I love my country too much to be a nationalist.” —Albert Camus.
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Blake Burge: Start with the smallest things that matter
“When you don’t know what to do next, clean your desk, make a list, and start with the smallest thing that matters. Every major project begins with a single act.” —Blake Burge.
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Khaled Hosseini: Little childhood
“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.” —Khaled Hosseini.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Sin by silence
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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Douglas Adams: Lunchtime
“TIME IS AN ILLUSION. LUNCHTIME DOUBLY SO.”—DOUGLAS ADAMS.
