William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
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Personally, I know how challenging it can be to find free time in today's uber-busy, espresso-chugging world to tend to our spirits, to nourish our souls.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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Healthy eating doesn't have to be crazily complicated; it can actually be so fun.
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Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.
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See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
