Esther Hicks Quotes
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
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The Indian audience is getting exposed to world cinema and realising the power of unique plots and distinct characters.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.
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Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.
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The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
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I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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As fiction writers, we are entertainers.
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From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.
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The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
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Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.
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What you focus on grows.
