"Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now."
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"If you want something, give it"
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"Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe."
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"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."
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"It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life."
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"I can't compare my life growing up in Leimert Park to someone in Imperial Village Projects; we don't have the same options and I understand that. You do what you do based on survival and instincts. If I know something, I try to share it and give that opportunity and enlightenment to whomever I'm around, some people might not want to hear it but once you know something, you have the option to do better."
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"Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can."
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"Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie."
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"To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success."
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"Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure."
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"How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me."
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"Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody"
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"All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman."
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"Give him enough rope and he will hang himself."
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"If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research."
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"I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that."
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"If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide."
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"Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal."
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"I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat."
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"It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture."
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