Zig Ziglar Quotes
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
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'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.
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I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.
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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
