Steve Wynn (Stephen Alan Wynn) Quotes
In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment. … And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.
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Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.
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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
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The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.
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I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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I actually take karate and tae-kwon-do. And so I love sparring and grappling and all that physical stuff. I studied a hybrid form of grappling, sparring, and self defense; it's more of a 'get yourself in shape,' and if you want to take it to the next level, so you're really learning valuable skills with self defense, and I really enjoy it.
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I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?'
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What people think and believe and plan are all very important, but what they do is the thing that counts most.
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I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.
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In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!
