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To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than… — Malcolm Gladwell
Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. — Robert Cialdini
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of… — Daniel Gilbert
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted. — Jonah Lehrer
The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in… — Jonah Lehrer
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes,… — Sergei Eisenstein
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an… — Walter Pater
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary. — Danny Boyle
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects… — Charles Simic
Each one of us will travel a different road during this life. Each progresses at a different rate. Temptations that trouble your brother may not… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening.… — James E. Faust
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free. — Edward Snowden
I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their… — Mother Teresa
My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all,… — Margaret Cavendish
Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so… — Christine de Pizan
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from… — Brian Setzer
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure… — Alberto Giacometti
They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs ingesting more and more fear with every act… — Erykah Badu
There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the… — Kwame Nkrumah
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing. — Kabir
The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less… — Gary Miller
Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less… — Jim Costa
But I would rather have snow. Snow is the on.y weather I really like. Nothing makes me less grumpy than snow. I can sit by… — Erlend Loe
In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of… — Peter Sloterdijk

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