Jerry Garcia
Musician
"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do."
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Insightful
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute."
Denis Waitley
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."
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"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."
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"What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness."
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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
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"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."
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"A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it."
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"It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate."
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"Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major."
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"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."
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"Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet."
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"Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'"
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"Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time."
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
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"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short."
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"It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior."
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"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
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"Live dangerously and you live right."
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"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
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"We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely."
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"We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current."
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"The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces."
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