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• I became very aware of what I was used to relying on, almost tricks. It's funny because I could feel myself creating a formula and sticking with it and I just told myself, 'That's not me, that's not really how I am, god forbid I have developed a formula - it's music; songwriting.' It's heretic, honestly, in the church of music, so I had to unwind a few tricks in order to get past it.

  Zach Condon

  Past, Order, Creating

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• What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without."

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Believe, Obvious Things, Ancient

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me, it's been about songs and just being hard on myself as a writer, feeling like there is a purpose to it all.

  Corey Smith

  Song, People, Feelings

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• I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize . You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.

  Frank Zappa

  Running, Recovery, Army

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• The problem I have with Bill Parcells is him quitting. I don't like guys quitting. If you sign up for something, finish the job get the job done. Don't quit. It is a three-year formula, he goes in, gets his three years and then he quits and walks out of there with a bucket full of money. I don't like that part of it

  Deion Sanders

  Jobs, Years, Guy

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• Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.

  Jack Canfield

  Expression, Purpose, Fit

  Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer (2009). “The Success Principles(TM)”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.

  Felicity Kendal

  Clever, Good Life, Thinking

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• There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, "Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works."

  Anita Roddick

  Crazy, Believe, Journey

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• It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

  James Dyson

  Creativity, Ideas, Confusion

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• Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Sports, Danger, Exciting

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

  John Dewey

  Democratic Ideals, Two, Liberty

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.78, SIU Press

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• If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Reality, Perfect

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• If I plug my estimates into the Magic Formula, and it comes out cheap, that's good.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Magic, Plugs, Ifs

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• The big picture is: the main thing you should be concerned about in the future are incremental returns on capital going forward. As it turns out, past history of a good return on capital is a good proxy for this but obviously not foolproof. I think this is an area where thoughtful analysis can add value to any simple ranking/screening strategy such as the magic formula. When doing in depth analysis of companies, I care very much about long term earnings power, not necessarily so much about the volatility of that earnings power but about my certainty of "normal" earnings power over time.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Thoughtful, Past, Simple

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• It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Men, Ideas, Brain

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.127, Indiana University Press

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• In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

  Atul Gawande

  Successful, Next Week, Broken

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• I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.

  Jenson Button

  Want, Triathlon, Controlled

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• A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

  Michael Josephson

  Happy Life, Goal, Unhappy

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• Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Insecurity, Promise, Overcoming

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• A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Winning, People

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There's no right time to have kids and no perfect formula. The good news is there isn't a wrong way, either.

  Natalie Massenet

  Kids, Perfect, News

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• I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!

  Dave Mustaine

  Done, Rust, Want

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• The best formula for revenge is success.

  Kid Rock

  Revenge

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In the rest of the world though, particularly in Europe, the most popular form of racing is not stock cars. It`s not NASCAR. It doesn`t look anything like NASCAR. It`s Formula 1.

  Rachel Maddow

  Europe, Car, Racing

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• Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.

  Rachel Maddow

  Car, Racing, Littles

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