"Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality."
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"What gets measured gets improved."
"Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within."
"Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education."
"Laughing is medicine for the soul."
"The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth."
"You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself."
"The words you speak are powerful. Especially the words you speak to yourself."
"Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results."
"Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices."
"Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other."
"Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly."
"Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system."
"No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers."
"Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration."
"The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse."
"The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic."
"I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery."
"When I won the Cesar, I was, first of all, an actor. I have to say, it's humanity first. That's the future. We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior."
"I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale."