Sara Blakely Quotes
When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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History will treat me right.
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The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.
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Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
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It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
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When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
