inspirational Quotes
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Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.
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No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.
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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
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The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
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My god is narrative filmmaking.
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Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
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If I were God, or the sultan, or just the chief justice, this prescription for change would look very different from what I propose here. Citizens United would be overturned. Voting rights protections would be restored. Partisan gerrymandering would be legislated and litigated into oblivion. The Electoral College might be dissolved. But to paraphrase former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, you don't wage de-devolution with the power you wish for; you wage it with the power you have. As a matter of both political reality and human mortality, the Supreme Court is out of reach for a generation. To protect democracy, we must otherwise intervene. This manifesto, therefore, is a platform for change built of six wholly unrelated planks--economic, regulatory, militant, educational, inspirational, harmonious--to counter the forces of ruinous fragmentation. . .
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I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.
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I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
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Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
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I was feeling miserable physically, in a lot of pain to the point where it was almost crippling me, especially creatively. I decided to take that and use it as an inspiration for getting out of bed and making something again.
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I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.
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To reach levels of success you've never reached before, you must be committed at a level you've never been committed at before.
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Courage is grace under pressure.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.
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God send everyone their heart's desire!
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
