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I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.: Alan Alda (1936 - )
We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.: Anne Wilson Schaef
If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 30, 08-22-04
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.: Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
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Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
Always be a little kinder than necessary.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.: Simone de Beauvoir
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.: Bagdikian's Observation
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Sometimes the joys of our youth do not translate to joys in adulthood and it’s hard to release them.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Starling Fitness, 07-23-08
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.: Kent Nerburn