"People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen."
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"Not to let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur is something that you shouldn't do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us are afraid for us and talk us out of it."
"People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love."
"What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender."
"People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness."
"The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response."
"Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope."
"Energy is something you can control, in everything you do, you're going to face people more talented than you. I set myself apart by bringing more energy than they do."
"Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life."
"In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were."
"Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time."
"The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game."
"I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated."
"People in uniform always look so great."
"Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish."
"Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls."
"Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that."
"He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it."
"All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people ."
"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly."