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"It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for."
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"If you want to see your life improve, your dreams come closer to fruition, and happiness deepen in your life, don't give up on anything you are doing."
"Successful people consistently put their best "self" forward."
"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."
"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
"I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore."
"Successful people play the part of being successful consistently in all that they do."
"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"We wanted to be accepted by our fellows, especially the influential natural leaders among us; and the ethos of my peers was " until my last year at Oundle " anti-intellectual. You had to pretend to be working less hard than you actually were. Native ability was respected; hard work was not. It was the same on the sports field. Sportsmen were admired more than scholars in any case. But if you could achieve sporting brilliance without training, so much the better. Why is native ability more admired than hard graft? Shouldn't it be the other way around?"
"There is nothing better in the whole world than to know you have set a goal and achieved it."
"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
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"It's a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not."
"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
"That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know."
"Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it."
"Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you."
"Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy.' Dag gulped. Both of their grounds were nearly closed. It was Arkady's voice alone that hinted how hard-bought this bit of wisdom might've been, yet the words had been nearly toneless."
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