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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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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I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've always loved poetry, I've always loved writing poetry and I've always loved sharing poetry. I've also always known that I wanted that to somehow be a very large part of my life and I'm very fortunate that it's such a large part of my life.
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I'm a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them - their artists, their videos, their marketing.
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A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
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Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation-stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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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.
