Bob Burg Quotes
Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.
Quotes to Explore
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
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I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
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People want to be with their own and want to be separated from others.
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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.
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If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art
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I think the title page I drew for Salomé was after all 'impossible'. You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows.
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One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
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Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.
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One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.
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I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.
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Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.
