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Success in life is to be measured by the goals you’ve set yourself.

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• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Girl
  • Stop
  • Week

• You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Me

• Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Why
  • May
  • Book

• Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

  

  Sam Kean
  • High
  • Human
  • Project

• I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • World
  • Women
  • Peace

• I don't need to impress children.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Children
  • Need
  • Impress

• There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Ugly

• People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • People
  • Football
  • Wonder

• Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Nature
  • Dog

• Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Silence

• If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Heart
  • Art

• All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Evil
  • Moral

• The course of Nature is the art of God.

  

  Edward Young
  • God
  • Art
  • Nature

• When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Knowledge
  • Positive
  • Examine

• Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Power
  • Worry

• We need to examine hatred on a global perspective because hatred is everywhere, and it does not matter who you are: you can be a victim of it anywhere and anytime.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Perspective

• If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Marketing

• When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

  

  Sampha
  • Alone
  • Thoughts
  • Feelings

• I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Truth

• In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.

  

  Franz Boas
  • Political
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

  

  Carsten Jensen
  • Choices
  • Travel
  • Ocean

• Success in life is to be measured by the goals you’ve set yourself.

  

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