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Titus Livius: Circumstances and plans
“Men’s plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans.” —Titus Livius, historian.
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Anais Nin: Body revolts
“When one is pretending the entire body revolts.” -Anaïs Nin.
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Charles Dickens: My business
“Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” —Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870) [in A Christmas Carol, published on…
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Jake Gyllenhaal: Nuts
“Crazy people don’t sit around wondering if they’re nuts.” —Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Simon Sinek: Incentives
“When the incentives offered prioritize growth over stability, we successfully build large, unstable organizations.” —Simon Sinek.
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David Carradine: Be the poem
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” -David Carradine.
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Riteish Deshmukh: Beauty of a relationship
“The beauty of a relationship is when you get used to a person; it is not sudden. It is just a process, and you don’t realise when love happens.” —Riteish Deshmukh.
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Brad Pitt: Beast
“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.” —Brad Pitt.
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Jean Paul Sartre: Authentic
“If you seek authenticity for authenticity’s sake you are no longer authentic.” -Jean Paul Sartre.
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Heinz Wolff: Eyewash
“The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash.” —Heinz Wolff.
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Virtue
“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.” —Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Sylvia Plath: I am. I am. I am.
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” -Sylvia Plath.
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Billy Gibbons: Barking up the wrong tree
“Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you’re barking up the wrong tree.” —Billy Gibbons.
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Simon Sinek: Say out loud
“When we say out loud what we don’t know, it increases the likelihood that someone who does know will offer help.” —Simon Sinek.
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Joss Whedon: Unless you suck
“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.” -Joss Whedon.
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Don Johnson: Famously infamous
“Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.” —Don Johnson.
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Margaret Chase Smith: Basic principles of Americanism
“Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize; The right to hold unpopular beliefs; The right to protest; The right of independent thought.” —Margaret Chase Smith,…
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Simon Sinek: Good friends
“Good friends make us better people. They cheer us on when we hit bottom and keep us humble when we reach the top.” —Simon Sinek.
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Angelina Jolie: A way of your own
“Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.” -Angelina Jolie
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Dee Wallace: Hit
“The public makes a hit.” —Dee Wallace.
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Simon Sinek: Curiosity
“Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jim Morrison: Weird
“Where’s your will to be weird?” -Jim Morrison.
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Gustave Flaubert: Splendid
“It’s splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.” —Gustave Flaubert, novelist (12 Dec 1821-1880).
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Taylor Swift: Red
“Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.” —Taylor Swift.
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Taylor Swift: Can’t even be considered
“If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.” —Taylor Swift.
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Simon Sinek: Right experience versus right person
“Weak companies hire the right experience to do the job. Strong companies hire the right person to join their team.” —Simon Sinek.
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Kurt Cobain: Wanting to be someone else
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.” -Kurt Cobain.
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Frank Sinatra: Get mad
“Don’t get even, get mad.” —Frank Sinatra.
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Roger Babson: Things going wrong
“If things go wrong, don’t go with them.” -Roger Babson.
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Simon Sinek: Connect
“Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi” —Simon Sinek.
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Naguib Mahfouz: Clever or wise?
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” -Naguib Mahfouz, writer, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1911-2006).
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John Kerry: Consequences
“The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.” —John Kerry.
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Steve Maraboli: Society
“Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.” -Steve Maraboli
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Steve Jobs: Focus
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have…
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Emily Dickinson: Behaviour
“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.” —Emily Dickinson.
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Cyril Connolly: Write for yourself
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” —Cyril Connolly.
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Simon Sinek: Try to empathize
“We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what’s wrong before telling them they are wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Eric Hoffer: No substitute for time
“It has been my experience that there is no substitute for time where thinking is concerned. Why is it so? The answer seems to be that in many cases to think means to be able to allow the mind to stray from the task at hand. The mind must be able to be ‘elsewhere.’ This…
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Jim Morrison: Expose yourself
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” —Jim Morrison.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Criticized anyway
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” -Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Simon Sinek: Teaching and learning
“We can teach only if we are willing to learn.” —Simon Sinek.
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Kim Basinger: Balloon with a string
“You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they’re going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.” —Kim Basinger.
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Simon Sinek: Struggles
Our struggles are the short-term steps we must take on our way to long-term success. —Simon Sinek.
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Willis Goth Regier: Flatter yourself critically
“Flatter yourself critically.” -Willis Goth Regier
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Christine Keeler: Discretion
“Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.” —Christine Keeler.
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Johnny Hallyday: Motto
“My Motto is: ‘To exist is to insist!’” —Johnny Hallyday.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Practice and theory
“Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going…. Practice must always be founded on sound theory.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
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Patrice O’Neal: I don’t like mediocre
“I like to be loved or hated – I don’t like mediocre. So I’d rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.” —Patrice O’Neal.
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Oliver James: Do your own thing
“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.” -Oliver James
