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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I do a lot of yoga. There's more and more guys getting into yoga these days, and I find that helps me as well.
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I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
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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.