We’ve collected the best Well Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: MS Dhoni, Oliver Goldsmith, Randy Pausch, Kamala Harris, Pearl S. Buck. Use them as an inspiration.
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Well, I think that – I think leadership‘s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
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I’ve always loved to paint – I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model – and I’ve being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.
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Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don’t see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.
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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn’t put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
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You can’t please everyone. There’s always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.
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I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster’s ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea – as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless – and bound for Ecuador.
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Well, to be frank I like natural beauty. Not artificial.
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Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed?
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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person‘s money as his time.
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.
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Since we are not robots, we can’t always perform well.
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Well begun is half done.
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How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
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We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
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A thing well done is worth doing.
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Happy Skin is all about natural beauty. They don’t want you to wear something that’s harsh on your skin and I want that as well.
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Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
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I do quite well for myself, but I live a simple life.
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We feel pressure from every angle to meet expectations, but the pressure also pushes us in a positive was as well.
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When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn’t skipped ahead.
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Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I’m portraying in the film or play.
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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
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So many times, people told me I can’t do this or can’t do that. My nature is that I don’t listen very well. I’m very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don’t let anything stand in my way.
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Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‘Boy, those were great old days.’ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.
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In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Everybody does things well in their own aspect. We’re all different. We all have our plusses and minuses.
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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
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What I treasure the most is people coming up to me in the elevator and saying, ‘You really did a great job‘: neighbours who congratulate for a job well done or little fans who hug me and say they want to be like me.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
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Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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I love entrepreneurship because that’s what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.
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To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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You’re playing a game, whether it’s Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It’s impossible to do well unless you’re having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there’s pressure. But I just look at it as fun.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
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When I see out-of-shape, overweight people huffing and puffing in the gym, my eyes well up with tears of pride. I want to walk over to them, hug them, and say, ‘Good on you for getting in here. It gets better!’ You know why? Because they’re challenging themselves.
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Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!
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No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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I don’t have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, ‘I can’t process it’ well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
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Well, in the first place, military service, they don’t call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
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When I was playing in the Ajax youth teams – when I was, say, 14, 15 – you started to get all those international youth tournaments. All those English teams came. Well, the English were much further than we were.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.
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I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing’s ever been as fun as baseball.
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
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I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
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The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don’t think so. I don’t think so. I think – yes, it will, it will be reduced. There’s no question about that.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.
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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
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If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.
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I just was in the second round. That’s painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that’s sport. You win, you lose.
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My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
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My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed – even later on, when I was well known and I supported her.
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I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn’t until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don’t have a problem going to sleep at night.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren’t so good. We didn’t have any money. I never thought of the word ‘poor’ ’til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you’re not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
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If you are not playing for the Stanley Cup at the end of the year, what’s the point? If you don’t win, you may as well not make the playoffs, because you are loser just like everyone else.
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Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives. It’s about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
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Like a lot of people, I’ve got a self-loathing streak that’s alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I’m working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.
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I don’t have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.
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I’m all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium, B complex, vitamin C.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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You only get one shot in your life, and you might as well push yourself and try things.
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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
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NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
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The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.
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Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
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Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
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Awards are like a pat of appreciation from the jury and viewers. It is almost like them saying, ‘So, you have done well; we expect you to carry on doing good work.’
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society – and well worth fighting for.
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A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.
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Well, if you’re true to yourself you’re going to be true to everyone else.
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For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally‘ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
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I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life… and that’s gotten stronger as I’ve gotten older. I’ve always felt if I don’t just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to – work harder than anybody else.
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When it’s well managed, migration works in the national interest, for our communities, economy and country.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
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Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.’
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Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
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If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
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I love to doubt as well as know.
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We really can’t forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can’t.
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Well done is better than well said.
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
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Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
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Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
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My parents always told me, ‘Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.’ They told me to make sure that you are happy.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of ‘self.’ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‘self;’ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
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A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
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A lot of people know me, but they don’t know me well.
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‘Movement is life;’ and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
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I’m in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it’s wrong that I get fired, well, I’ve got enough to eat.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
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Living well is the best revenge.
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I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‘Well, put your hand over here.’
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.
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The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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It is better to die well than to live badly.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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One may as well dam for water tanks the people’s cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
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When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
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Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
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Life well spent is long.
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Obviously, when I play well and win a trophy, I feel happy about myself.
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I think being Jewish has been covered really well but almost nothing about being fundamentalist Protestant. For years, I’ve had a movie in my mind called ‘Total Immersion’ that looks to my life as a kid where you’re immersed in this different worldview from almost everybody around you.
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I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’
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Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
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Well, you know, in any political campaign, you’re gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it’ll hurt the guy on the other side.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.
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I’m going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.
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I cut off my dreadlocks, but I couldn’t face throwing them away. They were so hard to grow, man. There’s a lot of work goes into those things. Some people keep a diary or a photo album to remind them of their past lives – well, I’ve got hair. Who knows? One day, maybe my grandchildren might want to see it.
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go… Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
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Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn’t turn out very well – you go, ‘Why did you do that?’ But in the end, I can’t regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
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The body is an amazing machine… If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!
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Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
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In addition to encouraging failure, I would also encourage companies to broadly create a culture of innovation. That should mean more than just technology and invention; it should mean something millennials know well: Ingenuity.
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And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president’s spouse. I wish him well!
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
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Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.
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Any place can be romantic if you’re there with the right person. Being able to travel well with a partner is a great read into whether you can make it as a couple.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go – not too often, but every now and then – to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.
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There are moments when everything goes well, but don’t be frightened.
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When I first got to Apple, which was in ’84, the Mac was already out, and ‘Newsweek’ contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, ‘Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.’
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Acting isn’t something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you’re going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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This thing with everyone knowing you, it’s weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don’t really know myself that well.
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Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‘Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.’ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
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Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.
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Well, bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return. You know, bonds have an interest coupon. Stocks have earnings and dividends. Gold has nothing, and bitcoin has nothing. There is nothing to support the bitcoin except the hope that you will sell it to somebody for more than you paid for it.
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I sleep very well, thank you.
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Changing someone else’s life positively changes yours for the better as well.
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Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
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If you are bowling well and not getting wickets, it’s not a big issue. Sometimes I am economical, but not getting enough wickets. But if I am not bowling well and not getting wickets, then it’s a disturbing thing.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.
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Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we’re going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online.
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Yes, I’m from a very big family but it’s great. All my brothers are friends as well. We all grew up together and have great memories.
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I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they’re going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
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Well, I grew up on the blues, man!
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I think what we’re attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can’t do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That’s why life is short and art is very long.
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I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
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Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
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If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
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I think my work has become more interesting, well to me anyway.
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We might as well die as to go on living like this.
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call.
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I’m not angry, I’m not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I’m more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
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In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
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Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
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You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.
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Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.
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The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it’s kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can’t play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.
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Freedom is a part of protest as well.
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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
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True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.
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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop.
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Life, if well lived, is long enough.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.
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I like to do the simple things really well, keep the ball ticking.
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It is not well to make great changes in old age.
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The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
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I never have really become accustomed to the ‘John.’ Nobody ever really calls me John… I’ve always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It’s a name that goes well together, and it’s like one word – John Wayne.
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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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Everybody is sitting around saying, ‘Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.’ That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.
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I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.
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If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, ‘What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?’
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant.
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Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.
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I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.
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I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
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People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
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We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
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We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and ‘how well you look’.
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What I think I’ve been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.
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Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.
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When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn’t myself, and that’s why certain styles did not work well for me.
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
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They have different styles. Scolari is used to coaching national teams and Mourinho clubs. Both are very successful. They are professionals as well as winners.
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You can make a million excuses for why something didn’t go well, but ultimately, just fix it and get on with it. Be a solutions person.
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In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
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There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.
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You just have to know yourself well enough to know what’s important. And when you do that, things just don’t get in your way. You don’t allow them to.
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Life changes, and thus, partying changes, and what it means to party evolves as well.
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My half-sister was born without a cerebellum and is completely disabled. She is my biggest motivator and inspiration, because her situation makes me realize how special life is, and I always want to work twice as hard, enjoy life twice as much so that I can enjoy it for her as well.
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You can’t tell young people what to do. You can’t tell ’em because they’ll look at you and say, ‘Well, how can you tell me not to do that when you were there doing it yourself?’ Or supposedly were doing it yourself. I think you must let everyone live their life the way they have to.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one’s memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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When the Queen says ‘well done,’ it means so much.
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Superstore’ is the most amazing work environment ever. Every single person on set is someone you’d call a friend. We have the best crew, as well, and we all hang out even when we’re not working. We push each other to be better, and we bring it out of one another. I have learned and grown so much.
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Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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Well, I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I haven’t been a rogue most of my life.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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I like to delude myself that I’m in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can’t do it.
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Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Time spent evaluating claims is not just time well spent. It should be considered part of an implicit bargain we’ve all made.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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I’ve realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it’s getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night.
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The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn’t. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it’s time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason – to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
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The journey has definitely not been easy, but all the sacrifice has paid off very well in terms of my performance on-court.
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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To seek the highest good is to live well.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.
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Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.
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Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.
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I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.
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Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
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For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
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Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.
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Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!
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It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.
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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
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There is nothing to regret with a job well done.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, ‘Don’t worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.’
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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
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At the end of the day, that’s all I hope for, is that I can sleep well at night knowing that I did everything that I could.
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The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
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Doubts may happen. But if you surround yourself with like-minded people who believe in you and who you believe in, and you have faith, all will be well.
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Whatever life throws at me I’ll take it and be grateful for it as well.
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Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
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Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.
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