"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
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"And through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection whether I'm right or wrong. And down the waterfall where ever it may take me I know that life won't break me when I come to call, she won't forsake me I'm loving angels instead."
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"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
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"A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."
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"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
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"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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"Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success."
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
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"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."
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"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."
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"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
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"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."
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"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
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"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."
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"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
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"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
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"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful."
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"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
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"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."
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