Sophocles Quotes
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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
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
J. I. Packer
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
D. H. Lawrence
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
Hale Irwin
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
Nathalie Sarraute
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
Nadia Bjorlin
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
Becky Lynch
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
Bear Grylls
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
Nate Berkus
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
Walt Mossberg
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
Mamata Banerjee
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
Zubin Mehta
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
Adam Grant
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I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think... Grow up & lose the fear.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
W. Clement Stone
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No wound is worse than counterfeited love.
Sophocles