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"Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you."
"There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again."
"If you were offered the opportunity to be TOTALLY happy tomorrow, would you take it? If yes, (and I suspect most of us would say yes) what are you doing TODAY to make tomorrow be a happier day than today?"
"Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science"
"I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else."
"I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time."
"If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today"
"Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure."
"I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're feeling it. If you're a jewelry retailer, you're feeling it. I know some of these businesses because we're in them. Yeah, it's being felt, but it will be felt big time more if we don't do something about it, what's going on."
"Today I stood taller from walking among the trees."
"Business today consists in persuading crowds."
". . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow."
"If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God."
"Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's."
"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
"Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent."
"There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude."
"Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon"
"Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today."
"If the world watched how you worked today, would the world rise to its feet and applaud?"
