William James Quotes
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I look formidable.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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I think what teenagers lack is the belief that they can be unique and extraordinary in life. Make the most of your age because you're not going to be a teenager forever!
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Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.
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I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
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If you want to be --ing individual, don’t get a tattoo. Every --er’s got one these days.
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
