Charles Garfield Quotes
The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
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Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
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I entered music at a poppy level.
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There are a lot of challenges Ofglen faces as a Handmaid. She has to live her life for the Commander of her home, Glen, and it is really a bleak life. She has no rights, and her main job is to keep him and the rest of the people in his house happy.
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The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
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I'm a firm believer in time. I know a lot of people don't believe in time like I do, but I think time heals and kind of reveals all for me.
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I'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money.
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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
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When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.
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"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
