Things Quotes
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Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something that’s just as you planned it, then you haven’t created art.
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Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?
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One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.
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The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.
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Favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.
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When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.
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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
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“I’m not really sure how we’ve arrived at this ridiculous juncture, and I’d be a great deal happier if we weren’t pointing these things at one another, wouldn’t you?”
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Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this isn't so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm.
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Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it's good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most.
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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled.
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A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
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I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.
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Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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One of the great things about songwriting; it's not an intellectual experience
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long.
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Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
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"It" is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.
