"America doesn't have the moral right to tell other people what to do. To say the whole world has to fall into line is you-know-what. I hope more people will rise up."
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"Style applies to a lifestyle. It's not about being told this is trendy, you must do it. Now people have more access than ever before."
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"Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission."
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"Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is."
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"There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements."
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"Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice!"
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"If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced, balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress you must first go unbalanced. Just look at how you make progress walking"
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"People who pay the price for security may never really feel secure rather the more their insecurity grows inside them because they are paying the price for action but not their internal reaction"
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"Often, loyalty means telling people things they don't want to hear. It's not being sycophantic, it's not telling them how wonderful they are every day. It's being willing to tell them the days they're not wonderful."
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"People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story."
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"What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them."
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"Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air."
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"Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors."
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"When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow."
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"The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character."
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"Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution."
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"Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything."
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"Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds."
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"Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries."
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"Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity."
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