Life Quotes
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The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.
Napoleon Hill
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The person I am is who I am. My life is my career, my career is my life.
Eric Dane
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I shake all the time. It's exhausting and causes chronic pain in my joints and muscles. It is also the only life I have ever known. I use yoga, dance, nutrition, and breathing to help manage my symptoms.
Maysoon Zayid
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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
Alice Kahn
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It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.
U. R. Ananthamurthy
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Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
Meg Wheatley
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I'm staying focused and clear about what I want in life, and I'm going to get it, man.
Bobby Brown
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Sleep helps you win at life.
Amy Poehler
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I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I'm on a declining scale of wanting things.
Om Malik
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I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.
Mary Doria Russell
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
Rachel Carson
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People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.
Sarah Hall
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A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.
Charles Bock
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I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.
Ashlee Simpson
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I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.
Anna Kournikova
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To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.
H. R. Giger
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One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.
Barack Obama
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Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin
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I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.
Donna Air
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I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.
John Lahr
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Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.
Keith Olbermann
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My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.
Alice Eve