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I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.: Dianne Hales
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It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.: John H. Patterson
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Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.: Mary C. Taylor, Watercolor Bold and Free
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.: James Hilton (1900 - 1954)
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Why not be happy after a while? You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to get happy.: John Mayer, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, 05-14-12
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Confusion is always the most honest response.: Marty Indik
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.: Solomon Short
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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