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Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with… — Thomas Leonard
Why aren't people more successful? Because most people do not select and pursue a vision without regard for other objectives. Most people shift from one… — Ari Kiev
Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both… — Brian Tracy
There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in the way we… — Sebastiao Salgado
After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas. — Seth Godin
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it… — Max Muller
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another manâ€™s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder… — Charles Caleb Colton
All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas… — Jim Rohn
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by… — Edward Steichen
As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being… — Leo Buscaglia
Traditionally, art has been for the select few. — Bob Ross
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading? — Henry David Thoreau
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever… — William Ernest Henley
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select… — Ernst Mayr
The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and… — Davies Gilbert

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