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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Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
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men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.
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There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.
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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
