Bob Proctor Quotes
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.
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Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.
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I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
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How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
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The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!
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I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.
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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
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It was great to do it against Saint Rose. My father's whole family went there. I broke the Saint Rose chain. I was going crazy at the end, but they weren't going to foul me. I knew I'd have to get a rebound to draw the foul, and that's what happened.
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An interview is like a minefield.
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Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.
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This life is beautiful. It’s so goddamned beautiful I can hardly stand it. And I’m a glorious part of it! Everybody else is just taking up space. Goddamned stupid people. I’d like to shove life down all their throats and then maybe they’d understand what it’s all about.
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My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Enjoy life, because life is phenomenal! It's a magnificent trip!
