Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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proverbiosEverything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential; these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~Confucius
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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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
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ~Ellen Page
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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