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  • People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.
  • Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
  • There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

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  • Bruce Lee As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Napoleon Hill You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Willie Shoemaker Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.
    Willie Shoemaker
    American jockey (1931 - 2003)
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  • Lee Iacocca Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Carl Honore Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Willie Shoemaker I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.
    Willie Shoemaker
    American jockey (1931 - 2003)
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Paul Gauguin Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Demosthenes No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama's respect for the Constitution does not apply to protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as Obama's deeply intrusive National Security Agency programs prove.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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