Ernest Becker Quotes
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
Adam D'Angelo -
Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
Gabourey Sidibe -
I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
Calvin Klein -
You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
Ralph Waite -
In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
Gary Lineker -
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
Walter Cronkite -
My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
Larry Fitzgerald -
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
Edgar Winter -
O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!
Edmund Spenser -
'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
Dan Simmons -
A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.
Patrick Rothfuss
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The important thing is not to know who 'I' is or what 'I' is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
Anthony de Mello -
Get well soon, Castro. pause Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!
Craig Ferguson -
I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
Clyfford Still -
Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
Lily Tomlin -
The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.
Cheryl Mills -
When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.
Ji-Hae Park
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I'm not scared of dying, I just don't want to.If I stop lying, I'll just disappoint you.
Robbie Williams Take That -
Johnny 'Fairplay' Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of 'Survivor' ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out.
Jenna Morasca -
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.
Ernest Becker