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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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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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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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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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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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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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When I awoke in the morning, my mother and Julia Hislop were whispering in a corner. They didn't have to tell me why. I already knew that my father was dead. And when the feeling of peace wore off, the surprise at having known intensified my sense of loss and sorrow. Although I was only nine, I could imagine what death meant. I knew he was gone forever.
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Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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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.
