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"Failure exists. Yes! Failure exists. Don't expect to meet all your expectations in life; however, expect to do everything you must do to realize your expectations and success. These two things success and failure have in common; they both responds to uncertainty and they are triggered by action."
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"Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will."
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Personal Development
"A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance."
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Personal Development
"If you don't find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it."
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Personal Development
"God has a will for your city, country, neighboring countries, and the whole world."
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Personal Development
"Your life goal and mission is to find your gift, become what you have been created to be and with your gift serve mankind, promoting advancement and influencing humanity."
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Personal Development
"Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it."
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Personal Development
"One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation-lettuce farming, say-would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?Goldeneyes Dactylos shrugged."I'm good at it, he said."
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"Identifying the purpose of your living is more important than creating a family and having children."
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Personal Development
"The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!"
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"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
Purpose
"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
Love
"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
People
"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
Money
"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"
Fun
"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
Fun
"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."
People
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
Question
"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."
Fiction
"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
Time
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