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"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
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"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made."

"Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done."

"Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else."

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."

"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"

"Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important."
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"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture."

"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."

"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."

"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
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