Hal Elrod Quotes
The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?
Quotes to Explore
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things.
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Being patient, and backing off. A race is not won on the first lap. A car changes during a race.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.
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The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?
