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I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying… — Charlie Munger
Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again. — Spike Lee
Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees. — Marvin J. Ashton
I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He… — Kirk Douglas
I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The… — David Ogilvy
You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet. — Deacon Jones
Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents… — Sogyal Rinpoche
When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it. — Fred Hollows
Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower… — Judith Wright
I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes… — Erin Hamlin
Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a… — Maria von Trapp
Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit… — David Ben-Gurion
Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into… — Angelina Jolie
I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In… — Louis Simpson
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even… — Samuel Ullman
I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not… — Olivia Newton-John
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs. — Catharine MacKinnon
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's… — Stephen Leacock
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that… — Fran Lebowitz
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it. — Ursula K. Le Guin
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the… — Doris Lessing
To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't… — John Steinbeck

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