"What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence."
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"Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for."
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"I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously."
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"I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them."
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"Oh how we want to be taken and changed, want to be mended by what we enter."
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"If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor."
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"Men willingly believe when they want to."
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"Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever"
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"You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too."
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"A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God."
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"You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve."
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"If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times."
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"I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad."
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"No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company."
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"I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort."
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"Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Because they are always thinking only of what they want. They don't realize that neither you nor I want to buy anything. If we did, we would go out and buy it. But both of us are eternally interested in solving our problems. And if salespeople can show us how their services or merchandise will help us solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We'll buy. And customers like to feel that they are buying - not being sold."
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"Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult."
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"All get what they want; they do not always like it."
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"Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up."
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"Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated."
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