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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 16, 2026
The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997  
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.
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Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13  
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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
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Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04  
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)  
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