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When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.: Rick Pitino, Lead to Success
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.: David M. Ogilvy
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To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables'
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Letter to her brother, 1894
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-10-06
Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHEATON dot NET, 12-16-2013
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You try to give away what you want yourself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.: Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982)
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.: Peter de Vries
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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Don’t let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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