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"Always be challenged to build your life intentionally for possessions."
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Personal Development
"The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness."
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Personal Development
"But for many people, a huge part of the energy goes into the struggle with complexes, fear, worries, anxiety, and the energy cannot be used to achieve goals and dreams."
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Personal Development
"I wish you could stop wasting your life to fulfill other people's dreams."
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Personal Development
"Learn how to pray with all your heart, applying all your energy to concentrate on one specific goal."
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Personal Development
"Things are not working for us because our focus is lost."
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Personal Development
"Time is wasted when it is not being converted."
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Personal Development
"Don't exert all your energy on employment, locate your purpose."
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Personal Development
"It is no use setting priorities if you won't stick to them."
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Personal Development
"Your calling is your natural area of concentration."
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"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."
Music
"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being."
History
"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."
Lifestyle
"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."
Life
"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War."
War
"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice."
Lifestyle
"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
History
"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"
Identity
"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."
Work
"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."
Society
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