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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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Personal Development
"We are capable of greatness."
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Personal Development
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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Personal Development
"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
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Personal Development
"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
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Personal Development
"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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Personal Development
"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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Personal Development
"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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Personal Development
"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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Personal Development
"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
Art
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
Work
"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
Life
"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
Influence
"It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions."
History
"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."
Man
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
Democracy
"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
Evil
"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."
Life
"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."
Man
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