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"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"
"While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil."
"That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
"I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way."
"Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had."
"People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end."
"I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions."
"Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity."
"The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me."
"When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's."
"I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that."
"I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange."
"I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish."
"The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude."
"We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better."
"If you're anything like me there are days when you're convinced you know more than everyone around you. Which is often confirmed by your interactions with people."
"Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in."
"It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives."
"Happy people are poor psychologists."
"Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders."
