Dozen Quotes

• Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

  Dave Ramsey

  Ideas, People, Dimes

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• I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.

  Clint Eastwood

  Way, Glad, Havens

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

  Walter Isaacson

  Smart, Thinking, What Matters

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• No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

  Louis L'Amour

  Memories, Association, Ends

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.937, Bantam

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• There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

  Jim Rohn

  Differences, Half, Six

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• With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

  Julian Casablancas

  Trying, Way, Why Not

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• You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Success, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 28, 2014

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• Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

  Douglas Horton

  Ideas, Dimes, Brilliant Ideas

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• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Couple

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

  John le Carre

  Political, Politics, Doing Nothing

  FaceBook post by John le Carré from Oct 20, 2010

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• Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Two, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144

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• It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.

  Louis Agassiz

  Teaching, Knowledge, Science

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• Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

  Clint Walker

  Dirty, Vacation, Nasty

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• Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Shoulders, One Man

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• You can't really prepare yourself for being greeted by a dozen Klingons drinking blood wine. So, it can be a bit off-putting coming in from the outside. But it's great fun and there are no fans like Star Trek fans.

  Jeri Ryan

  Stars, Fun, Drinking

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• Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Years, Ideas

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• Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Ideas, People, Dimes

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• When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Character, Emotional

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.65, Grove Press

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• Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

  Brad Pitt

  Dimes

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• Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, "How did he do it? He must be a genius!"

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Science, People, Giving

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• There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the schools for the past quarter century. It comes as no surprise to those who have known of dozens of cases of scientists who have been hounded out of jobs by silly disloyalty charges, and kept out of all professional employment by widespread blacklisting practices.

  Edward Condon

  Jobs, Silly, Teaching

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• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Football

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• One rose says more than the dozen.

  Wendy Craig

  Rose

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• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Military, War

  "Buy American. I Am." by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

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