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#1. My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

James Altucher

#2. The body is entirely neutral, my lady. It just likes sex. It's the mind that fucks up our compass.

Joey W. Hill

#3. Working in Isaac's universe was more of a treat than a challenge.

Greg Bear

#4. I was too concerned with my own dignity. Grovelling and compliments were the order of the day. I made the mistake of trying to teach them their business.

Debbie Horsfield

#5. Conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

Margaret Deland

#6. Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

John Stuart Mill

#7. Do unto others before they have a chance to do unto you.

Daniel Silva

#8. We all fight wars - in our work, within our families and abroad in the wider world. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.

Steven Pressfield

#9. That was my gift ... having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.

Miles Davis

#10. One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.

Meghan O'Rourke

#11. When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.

Rob Marshall

#12. Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has long believed that he, his staff and players should be as devoted to family time as they are to playing time, as focused on giving to charities as they are to taking the ball away from opponents.

Don Yaeger

#13. Pressure is just that - pressure. It's all in your head. It has nothing to do with what you can or can't do.

Julie Cross

#14. I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

Pele

#15. Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them.
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