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  • Samuel Johnson Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Russell Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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  • Albert Einstein Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jack Nicklaus Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Roger Staubach Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
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  • John F. Kennedy Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Albert J. Nock Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Joseph Addison Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Anna Held Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • John Quincy Adams Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
    John Quincy Adams
    American statesman (1767 - 1848)
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  • Jean Paul Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • David Ben-Gurion Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
    David Ben-Gurion
    Israeli politician, founder of and first Prime Minister of Israel (1886 - 1973)
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  • Orson Welles Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Ray Kroc Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Hazlitt Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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