“ I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since. ”
- Walter Cronkite- Copy
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“ Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. ”
- Jeanette Winterson- Copy
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“ All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do. ”
- Katharine Butler Hathaway- Copy
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“ When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men. ”
- Norvin McGranahan- Copy
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“ Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. ”
- W. J. Cameron- Copy
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“ Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. ”
- Edward Steichen- Copy
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“ Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. ”
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“ Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards. ”
- Charles E. Popplestone- Copy
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“ The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come… ”
- Daniel Goleman- Copy
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“ If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on. ”
- Lou Holtz- Copy
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“ An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. ”
- Maria Callas- Copy
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“ We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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