Quotes 241 till 260 of 684.
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If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
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If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
Source: Its a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest (1920) -
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
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If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
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If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
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If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'
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If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
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If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
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In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before.
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In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
Source: Rick Moody (2007) 129
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