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Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
Every hero becomes a bore at last.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.: Mignon McLaughlin
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.: Garth Brooks, Country Music
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Even God cannot change the past.: Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC)
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.: Brendan Gill
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.: the Dhammapada
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.: Ben Stein, E! Online, 12-20-03
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838
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I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory.: Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam, 08-30-13
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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.: Chinese Proverb
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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.: Dr. David M. Burns
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