Quotes 7141 till 7160 of 10501.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
Source: A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910) -
The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
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The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.
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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
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The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
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The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom -
The song is the center; the song is the key. If you don't have a good song you don't have anything by my value.
Source: As quoted in The King is Still Alive in The Birmingham Post [England] (6 November 2001) -
The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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