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He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

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• Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Kind

• Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Fun
  • Force
  • Smiles

• Concentrate on the small things and do them well.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Small
  • To Do
  • Concentrate

• What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.

  

  William Sargant
  • True
  • Always

• I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Order

• The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Identity
  • Meditation
  • Chose

• Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' – there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Me
  • Ways
  • Conversations

• We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Reach
  • Higher
  • Constantly

• Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Force
  • Respecting
  • Bullialdus

• To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Wisdom
  • Justice

• Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Freedom
  • Prove
  • Acknowledgement

• That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Impressions
  • Attainment
  • Respecting

• As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.

  

  Denny Hamlin
  • Career
  • Legacy
  • Everyone

• Growing up, I was constantly labeled an 'oreo' by my black peers because of my proper speech and 'valley girl accent.'

  

  Franchesca Ramsey
  • Growing
  • Because
  • Accent

• General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains.

  

  George Meade
  • Mountains
  • Higher
  • Respects

• I am not entirely off grid. I send a lot of email. But the way Facebook constantly alters its privacy settings to bamboozle you into giving more away is just underhand.

  

  Mike Bartlett
  • Giving
  • Facebook
  • Constantly

• Every day, do something selfless for someone else that takes under five minutes. The essence of this thing you do should be that it makes a big difference to the person receiving the gift. Usually these favors take the form of an introduction, reference, feedback, or broadcast on social media. Do something that's not for yourself, every single day. Expect nothing in return. Over time, these random acts of kindness will really add up.

  

  Adam Rifkin
  • Kindness
  • Return
  • Selfless

• I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Idea
  • Existence
  • Sculptor

• He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

  

  Mencius
  • Constantly
  • Respecting