Zelig Pliskin Quotes
When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.
Quotes to Explore
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.
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John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
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My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.
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Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.
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We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
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I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.
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I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.
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In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.
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Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
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Vergeef me, ik heb niet voor niets de naam een bundeltje tegenspraak te zijn!
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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I got a woman way over town, That's good to me, Oh yeah!
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History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
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One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.
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We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.
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I'd like to be able to be like a director, like Richard Brooks, say. And be able to say, 'I did my best, and this is it, and there's nobody to blame but me.'
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People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.
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The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
Mark Spitz -
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
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New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.
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When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.
