Judith Wright Quotes
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.
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Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
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So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing — Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing —Stab at thee he that will,No stab the soul can kill.
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My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
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He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.
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I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.
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I've never finished anything by Dickens.
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Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country.
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The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
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I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.
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It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
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As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
