Earl Nightingale Quotes
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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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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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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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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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'
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I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
