"Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself."
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"Confusion sets in when you're not sure if your product or service is bought or sold, or worse, if you are a salesperson just waiting for people to buy."
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"So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!"
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"What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him."
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"What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you."
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"When you consider Life as sacred,Nature waits on you"
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"I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie."
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"Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you."
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"Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait"
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"As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train."
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"There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth."
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"Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones."
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"Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong."
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"Always...no wait...never."
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"Anything that you think is wild or fun, or can't wait to see or show your friends, go for it."
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"That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!"
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"I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it."
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"... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts."
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"The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them."
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"Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently."
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