An Wang Quotes
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
Quotes to Explore
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
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The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
