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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
It is only the first step that is difficult.: Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.: Sean O'Casey (1880 - 1964)
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.: Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.: Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I always like a good math solution to any love problem.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 1999
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854
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Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.: David Reisman
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Make your life a mission - not an intermission.: Arnold Glasgow