John C. Maxwell Quotes
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.
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Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.
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I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There will be leaders that inspire young people. I don't think it means that it's over forever, but I'm getting pretty impatient. I'm hoping it comes soon, so that my young people can know that experience that we knew in the '60s, and that the World War II generation knew during the '40s.
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Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.
