Og Mandino Quotes
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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The usual practice just isn't enough. I want more edge over my opponents. Cross-training is so important. I can improve myself and have a lower impact on my body.
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Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?
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Before I realized what was happening, everything blew up. I made 'Animals' when I was in high school, and literally, from that moment, I've been living a different life. I've been touring a lot, traveling a lot, doing great shows. I've been in the studio with my biggest idols.
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The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.
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It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.
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Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
