Quotes 961 till 979 of 979.
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You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.
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You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've got to be thankful for the job you've got and do the best you can.
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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
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You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
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You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
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Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
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Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher - that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.
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A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.
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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
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I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received (2004) 20
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