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After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Career
  • Been
  • Focused

• But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Great
  • Interesting

• The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • America
  • Culture
  • Period

• The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Know
  • Horse
  • Racing

• We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Poverty
  • U.S.
  • Unemployment

• There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Nothing
  • Holocaust
  • Compares

• If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Want
  • Limits
  • Welcome

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Lead

• Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Lie

• There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.

  

  Albert Camus
  • True
  • Miracle

• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Up

• I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Band

• I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.

  

  Elizabeth Banks

• I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

  

  Betty White
  • Business
  • Ego

• I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Time
  • Good
  • Money

• I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Life
  • Wedding

• Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Why
  • Attention

• Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

  

  Lowell Thomas
  • Hand
  • Water
  • Purpose

• Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in 50 Days. It's the ultimate expression of what I love to do, which is run, and travel, and see this great country.

  

  Dean Karnazes
  • Great
  • Country
  • Art

• I started to work on a feature-length script about pirates in Somalia, but I knew that there was something I was missing, which was that I didn't know what day-to-day life looked like and felt like in East Africa. So I decided I had to go.

  

  Cutter Hodierne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Missing

• After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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