Padgett Powell Quotes
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.
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My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.
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I've got a good man. He takes care of me. I don't have to be scared of anything because I know he will kick every ass... disrespect him and you've got a problem.
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Just when they thought I was done for the winter, I came out stuntin I'm such a big spender.
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What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
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There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus.
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Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.
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We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.
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The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.
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You know, I'm not too sure what you just said. Now everybody gets a great deal.
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I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.
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Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the patience of faith so that we may receive the Holy Gift. Even though we only wait, poor and yearning in the darkness, in fervent longing for the proclamation, we are ready, and may help bring about the fullness of time.
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There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.
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The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
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If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.
