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"Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale. ...Your attitude towards your potential is either the key to or the lock in the door of personal fulfillment."
"The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know."
"Dedicating time when I really can't afford to be I'll provide protection if you open up the door for me"
"Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors."
"Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man that lives next door to me does for a living? He's a f*****g dentist."
"Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded."
"Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?"
"The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door."
"A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code."
"I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door."
"These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching."
"There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man."
"Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you."
"There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance."
"But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible!"
"I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door."
"There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors."
"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."
"In the days when we had paper charts, typically the paper chart would be in the door outside of the patient's room. Well now when you walk up to the door there's nothing there. Except maybe a folder with their name on it so you know who's in the room."
"First sentences are doors to worlds."
