"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."
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"We need men who can dream of things that never were."
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"Inspiration, without action, is merely entertainment. ACT on your inspiration today!"
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"Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on."
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"Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story."
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"The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it."
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"Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence."
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"We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be."
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"You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so that at any moment, when inspiration happens, you're ready for it and you interpret it."
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"Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers."
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"Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration."
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"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."
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"When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things."
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"Appearances matter — and remember to smile."
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"A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities."
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"It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create."
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"Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them."
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"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."
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"Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time."
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"Inspiration is all around us. Don't let the brain limit the mind ."
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