Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.
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From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.
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I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
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The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
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I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.
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I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.
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As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.
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People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.
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I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.
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There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.
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I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.
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When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.
