"Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job."
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"I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors."
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"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."
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"Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel."
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"The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre"
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"I might be too strung out on compliments, overdosed on confidence/ Started not to give a f- and stop fearing the consequence/ Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments."
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"She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can."
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"When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there."
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"I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer."
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"The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way."
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"If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again."
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"To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing - it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness."
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"The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money."
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"People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'"
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"I have a brother who gives socks for Christmas. He gives socks. Every year, I get a pair of socks from him."
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"It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't."
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"The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical."
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"That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned"
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"Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart."
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"The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world."
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