John C. Maxwell Quotes
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.
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'The bread of the stranger is bitter,' says Dante, 'and his staircase hard to climb.' But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?
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It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.
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Everybody has their due season. And it's all about what you do in your season.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
