Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.
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Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.
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[Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.
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As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.
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Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.
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As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
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The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.
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Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.
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On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
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I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.
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I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
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As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
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If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.
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Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
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We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.
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I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.
