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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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"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
Intelligence
"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
Doubt
"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
Books
"The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement."
Challenge
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
Appearance
"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers."
Quality
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
Research
"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."
Power
"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
God
"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."
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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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Personal Development
"Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your wit and wisdom, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints!"
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Personal Development
"Attitude is the most beautiful expression of a positive life."
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Personal Development
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
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Personal Development
"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
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Personal Development
"Ask yourself and become more aware-are you . . . Speaking poorly of others in judgment, gossip, and intolerance? Looking for, dwelling on, and obsessing over the negative? Being grumpy, negative, and infecting others with your bad attitude or victim mentality?"
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Personal Development
"My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges."
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Personal Development
"A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem."
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Personal Development
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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Personal Development
"It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck."
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