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Adam Grant Organizational Psychologist, Author
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"If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions."

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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author
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"As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not."

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Benjamin Graham Investor, Author
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"Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied."

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Confucius Philosopher
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"If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast."

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Blake Shelton Singer, Songwriter
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"That's when the dream is so far off it seems like it will never happen. It can be most anything you want it to be."

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are ... your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled. If you don't study, if you don't work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day, you 'll never be able to communicate with people your artistry the way that you want!"

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!"

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