"Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?"

Tomlin, Lily on prayer
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Camus, Albert on charm
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

Picasso, Pablo on art
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"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

Ashe, Arthur on self-confidence
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"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

Nightingale, Earl on goals
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"It is tact that is golden, not silence."

Butler, Samuel on tact and tactfulness
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"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

Shakespeare, William on travel
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"Be good and you will be lonely."

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

Selye, Hans on attitude
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"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

Lawrence, D. H. on speech
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"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

Wilde, Oscar on common sense
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Hoffer, Eric on kindness
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"Somebody left the cork out of my lunch."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."

Fowler, Gene on opposition
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"Journalism is organized gossip."

Eggleston, Edward on journalism and journalists
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"If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on praise
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"And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges."

Shakespeare, William on time   

"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."

Trotman, Dawson on procrastination
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"The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."

Rowland, Helen on opportunity
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"A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved."

Brande, Dorothea on problems
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"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

Wooden, John on performance
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

Wooden, John on attitude
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"When the will is ready the feet are light."

Proverb on power   

"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

Frost, Robert on power
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"Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on talent
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"Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously."

Morrow, Lance on negotiation
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"The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line."

Battista, Orlando A. on negotiation
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"Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain."

Cook, Robert A. on complaints and complaining
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"Never excuse, never explain, never complain."

Motto on complaints and complaining
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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

Sun Tzu on war
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"What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it."

Seneca on revenge
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"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing."

Seneca on life   

"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."

Seneca on individuality   

"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

Seneca on goals
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"If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him."

Seneca on goals
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"Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all."

Seneca on friends and friendship
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"He who is brave is free."

Seneca on freedom
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"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."

Seneca on failure
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

Seneca on adversity
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"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

Hoffer, Eric on change
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