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  • We're all playing melody against each other. our aim is to get so far away from the original line that your playing something that's never been heard before.
        Eric Clapton   Best?
  • And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
        Bible   Best?
  • In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair.
        Elzear Blaze   Best?
  • When you work with kids who have autism, they don't reciprocate any affection. You learn to find your self- worth within what you do, not what people tell you about yourself.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • Fame and glory are fleeting, especially in the music business. That's why completing my degree and graduating from college were priorities.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • What I wanted to do was work with kids with behavioral and emotional handicaps. It's a puzzle, learning each child, because each child is different.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
        Sharon Salzberg   Best?
  • When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.
        Neil Gaiman   Best?
  • One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids.
        Barbara Hall   Best?
  • You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
        Barbara Hall   Best?
  • One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
        William Bradford   Best?
  • Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
        Thomas Sowell   Best?
  • Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. (The Gorky Incident)
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.
        Bruce Lee   Best?
  • But you have to realize that it doesn't matter how your films are going to stack up against other people's. You have to stop whining about it and just get to work. Just do it. Because in the work is your existence. That's what you're here for.
        Martin Scorsese   Best?
  • I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
        Thomas Alva Edison   Best?
  • I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
        Steve Prefontaine   Best?
  • He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.
        Prophet Mohammed   Best?
  • In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.
        J. M. Coetzee   Best?
  • I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors themselves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  • Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
        Robertson Davies   Best?
  • There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.
        Jay Leno   Best?
  • I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
        Jay Leno   Best?
  • The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
        Anna Quindlen   Best?
  • Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
        Christopher Reeve   Best?
  • A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.
        Dag Hammarskjold   Best?
  • To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.
        Immanuel Kant   Best?
  • Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
        Ray Bradbury   Best?
  • I would rather make one percent of a hundred men's efforts than one hundred percent of my own. This way if ten get sick and ten get run over by a truck, I still have eighty percent of my income.
        J. Paul Getty   Best?
  • Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train - Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
        J. Paul Getty   Best?
  • Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
        Thomas Carlyle   Best?
  • You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
        Anna Quindlen   Best?
  • There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
        Colin Powell   Best?
  • The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
        Vidal Sassoon   Best?
  • She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
        Willa Cather   Best?
  • The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...
        Tennessee Williams   Best?

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