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The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are… — Melinda Gates
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job.… — Anne Enright
Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough… — Skylar Grey
The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your… — Desmond Tutu
Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell
When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an astrophysicist and astronaut… — W. Ann Reynolds
To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to… — Marcus Aurelius
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. — Marcel Proust
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.… — Thomas Carlyle
Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose -… — Philip Gulley
One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of… — Helen Keller
Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it,… — Dalai Lama
Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because… — Dalai Lama
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. — Charles Kingsley
So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example. — Jean Baudrillard
The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for… — William J. Clinton
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice,… — Marilyn vos Savant
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows… — Stephen Leacock
Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any… — Carroll Quigley
When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run. — Andy Warhol
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered… — Georges Braque
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should. — Georges Braque
It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the… — Edward de Bono
Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information. — Chris Powell

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