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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell

Leadership, Failure, Care

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan

Age, Judge, Said

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.
Bill Cosby

Choices, Street, Loud

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin

Time, Father, Long

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
Charles Stanley

Life, Truth, Fear

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
Bob Dylan

Smoking, Voice, Changed

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Children, Done, Revolution

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho Marx

Dead, Either, Watch

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Death, Stop, Ourselves

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
Paulo Coelho

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.
Hillary Clinton

India, Oil, Asking

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
Andy Warhol

Caring, Television, Close

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
Craig Ferguson

Wait, Alcohol, Worth

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
J. K. Rowling

Work, Failure, Why

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin

Children, Parents, Long

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.
Harvey Fierstein

Hanging, Factory, Pork

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
Harvey Fierstein

Writing, Thought, Acting

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
Elie Wiesel

Faith, God, Mean

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
Quentin Tarantino

School, Interested, Interest

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
David Ogilvy

Political, Left, Dishonest

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.
Liam Neeson

Good, Smoking, Finally

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.
Michael J. Fox

Short, Hell, Far

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
Mary J. Blige

Life, Love, Government

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
Anthony Kiedis

Love, Working, Beer

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.
Herb Brooks

Dreams, Kids, Nation

Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.
Demetri Martin

Again, Progress, Since

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
Helen Rowland

After, Keep, Lovers

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
Robert Plant

Success, Great, Acceptance

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.
Tiger Woods

Thought, Living, Away

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