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Listening is the first and most basic skill of managing people. Listening
What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.
When you're dead set on doing the right thing, sometimes it's hard to recognize that you're doing it in the wrong way.
Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started ...
I'm a point guard, I've always been a point guard, I've played point guard all my life. Personally, I feel the best point guards make ...
Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.
During my most difficult days, I text message God. I know I can just say a prayer and He'll hear me, but just in case ...
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might ...
It was then, so curiously, that Miranda held out her arms ... And Rachaela went into the arms of Miranda, and together they wept, ... ...
One who utters speech that isn't rough But instructive and truthfulSo that he offends no one, Him I call Brahmin.
Make no mistake: if he rose at allIt was as His body;If the cell's dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit,The amino acids rekindle,The Church ...
It could be our own private universe.
Sometimes, the intent is good enough when the action seems impossible.
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And ...
I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably
Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.
We must make some effort, but we must forget ourselves in the effort we make ... So it is necessary for us to encourage ourselves ...
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride,Within this house thou must not abide.For here do evil things betide.
It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys.
Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!
I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.
Her own folly amused her: she had once thought of herself as smart - but look at where she was.
One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe ...
There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.
I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. ...
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
What good is a theory of how the universe works if it's a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to ...
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the ...
Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna ...
Why don't you and Patrick actually talk to each other?" Tab said. Em looked up. "Are you demented? And say what?
Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.
Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.
I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
You can't have everything, even in California
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways ...
Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.
I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around ...
Fulfilling your destiny is like going on an errand assignment. You must run it to make it meaningful. You don't become who you should become ...
If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.
Your calves, biceps and neck should always be the same size in inches. Mine are 16 inches - anything bigger or smaller and you know ...
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
I have faced Death. I have been caught in the wild weed tangles of Her hair, seen the gleam of her jade eyes. I will ...
The power of desire is a divine.Desire to live by faith.
Tequila is like acid in a glass.
Gradually, Hopkins came to see that his battles with despair and darkness were somehow included in God's loving purposes.
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come ...
All patched up out of parts and lowslung and bumping over the ruts. Filled with old lanky country boys with long cocks and big feet.
I'll catch any rose in my vase-shaped heart, then process it through my vascular system, until there's nothing left.
The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.
This miserable, awful woman still had no idea what it meant to be truly beautiful, or truly loved.
To go fast, row slowly.
If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
I like having the dough to come and go as I please.
Love renders all our plans and all our intentions a great big gamble.
How did you get here? Close your eyes ... and surrender! ...
He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, completely naked in ...
You are worth fighting for.
I am a sucker for jackets!
Life isn't about being perfect and sometimes life sure as hell isn't about having perfect timing. It just is. Either you embrace it or you ...
Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward ...
You become a winner because you're good at losing.
A lot of people don't want to know, but I'd like to know if I have a 10 percent or a 90 percent chance of ...
How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their ...
The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.
It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.
Life is a succession of readjustments.
When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
In spiritual warfare, as we detect enemy activity and deploy the various pieces of armor, our prayers need to be fervent and specific, strategic and ...
It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period ...
Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to ...
Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop trying, stop doing, ...
(It is interesting that the words "cosmos" and "cosmetic" have the same root, the Greek word for "adornment" or "arrangement.")
I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that ...
You have my attention.I know you want a motorcycle or you will think you want one for a while.Well, I don't have one.But I have ...
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem ... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
When your drive is moving your purpose, focus must hold the wheels else your might miss the way. And do you know what that means? ...
My favorite drink is sake.
Is the journey the destination? Please, no. Let me out of your Volkswagen bus at the next corner.
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls ... the materialistic culture ... is now on the way to its close.
I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know ... the ...
It's important to get the facts straight, a lot of information out there isn't right.
That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be ...
Shall we stay out here, so we won't wake your friends? It was news to me that our conversation was going to last that long. ...
Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. ...
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will ...
I see a woman who has a deep curiosity. Who wants to feel but is worried- of herself? Of others? I'm not sure. But I ...
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, ...
We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and ...
The wind," Mary said again. "It was making everyone tear up.
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
A whole world exists outside of that hellhole.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.