Garrison Wynn Quotes
People buy-into what they can understand quickly. If it takes you a long time to make your point, most people think you don't have one!

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
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The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
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The state-initiated referendum has always been a part of this anti-democratic logic. Stop the talk, we're going to decide, yes or no. At this point the citizen's role is to wave one flag or the other and cheer for one side of the simple question or the other. In other words, we're reduced to children.
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Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.
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Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. It's the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience.
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People buy-into what they can understand quickly. If it takes you a long time to make your point, most people think you don't have one!