Preston Manning Quotes
In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.
Quotes to Explore
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.
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First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.
