David Seabury Quotes

#1. If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

David Seabury

#2. The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.

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#3. We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

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#4. Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

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#5. I don't chase publishers. Publishers chase me.

Eric Walters

#6. I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.

Maya Lin

#7. I love you, Tina. You're my everything.

Belle Aurora

#8. Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

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#9. The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

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#10. What is there about you to adore? Who in this world do you care about, besides yourself? You're a pretty face, but you're empty inside. You don't even know what you want. You're just waiting for someone to give it to you.

Sarah Cross

#11. Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

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#12. When did a name ever change what someone is?

Brenna Yovanoff

#13. A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

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#14. A strange, beautiful new world awaits, Leonard.
We've found an oasis in their ruins. We really have.
You want to see it, so just hold on, okay?

Matthew Quick

#15. Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits.

Mark Victor Hansen

#16. Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

David Seabury

#17. But the banging of the door as punctuation caused Tiffany to think and she thought suddenly, I want to do it my way. Not how the other witches think it should be done. I can't be Granny Weatherwax for them. I can only be me, Tiffany Aching.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

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#19. Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

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#20. I was an emotional basket case.

Jennifer Capriati

#21. Love ... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

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#22. We don't sell a watch to give time. We sell a piece of art. We sell an object that represents something to you, you know. It's like you have a nice shirt or a nice jacket. It's like a luxury accessories that can be considered like shoes or like handbags for ladies.

Ricardo Guadalupe

#23. Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

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#24. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Steve Jobs

#25. The fool knows after he has suffered.

Hesiod

#26. No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

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#27. Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

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#28. Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

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#29. Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

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#30. President Carter inherited an impossible situation
and he and his advisers made the worst of it.

Gaddis Smith

#31. Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

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#32. Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

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#33. He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

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#34. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

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#35. Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

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