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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller

Life, Music, Beautiful

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin

Good, Trying, Put

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau

End, Pretty, Serious

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

Tell, Surprise, Ingenuity

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs

Understand, Study, Until

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden

Strong, Cannot, Adversity

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, Through, Energy

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut

Today, Loneliness, Young

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David Thoreau

Tension, Instrument, Strings

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs

Important, Saying, Thinking

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton

Tell, Surprise, Results

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost

Baseball, Tough, Both

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
Johnny Depp

Work, Different, Trying

I hate women because they always know where things are.
Voltaire

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
Will Smith

School, Learn, Valuable

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau

Whether, Might, Concerning

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford

Success, Person, Secret

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Norman Vincent Peale

Success, Work, Four

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
Niels Bohr

Real, Everything, Made

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw

Down, Find, Enough

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan

Dreams, Nature, Against

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
Jim Rohn

Men, Thought, Makes

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

Money, Business, Poor

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius

Love, Yourself, Live

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard

Able, Rather, Appreciate

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Johnny Depp

True, Problem, Labeled

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman

Change, Leadership, Men

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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

Law, Two, Moral

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Jim Rohn

Success, Ordinary

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