Belva Plain Quotes
It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
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If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
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Know the business, learn the business, own something.
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
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I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
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I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.
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I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
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I think Varga is a manifestation, certainly, and someone who can thrive and profit from the world's failure and has worked out the operation, whatever the operation may be, that he's about, which will remain a mystery.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
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Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
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It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.
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Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.
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People plan, God laughs.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
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If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.
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It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
