Charles Kendall Adams Quotes
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
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We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
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When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.
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I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
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The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
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A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
