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"I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even."
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"Prof. Gerd Gleixner said " Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks ."
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"If you can cope the pride when winning,then you can confront despair when lose."
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"It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked."
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Personal Development

"Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die."
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"Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams."
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"It's bad enough barging into Guild property, but we'll get into really serious trouble if we shoot anyone. Lord Vetinari won't stop at sarcasm. He might use' - Colon swallowed - 'irony."
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"The one who does not have the control for even a minute, he does not have the control forever."
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"Discipline is more about self-control through your inner strength and less about restriction."
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"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."
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"Each day you wake up, work as if the manifestation of your dream solely depends on that day."
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"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."
Friendship

"I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it."
People

"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University."
Education

"With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now."
Now

"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
Life

"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
Family

"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."
Want

"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."
Recognition

"I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even."
Discipline

"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."
Life
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