Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. ~Abraham Maslow
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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