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• See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.

  Robert Collier

  Life, Motivation, Positive Thinking

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

  Richard DeVos

  Dream, Inspirational Life, Positive Thinking

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• The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 11, 2014

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• I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Block, Book, Ideas

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• When you're really trying to make serious change, you don't want people to get caught up in emotion because change isn't emotion. Because change isn't emotion. Its real work and organization and strategy - that's just the truth of it. I mean, you pull people in with inspiration, but then you have to roll up your sleeves and you've got to make sacrifices and you have got to have structure.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Real, Hard Work

  "One-On-One With Michelle Obama". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2008.

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• All that we can hope from these inspirations, which are the fruits of unconscious work, is to obtain points of departure for such calculations. As for the calculations themselves, they must be made in the second period of conscious work which follows the inspiration, and in which the results of the inspiration are verified and the consequences deduced.‎

  Henri Poincare

  Hard Work, Science, Departure

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.660, Modern Library

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• Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Science, Ninety Nine

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• Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Carpe Diem

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2015

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• First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Firsts, Watches

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Humility, Race, Government

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.424, Univ of California Press

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• To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

  Maya Angelou

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Modern Library

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• My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

  Stephen King

  Mom, Mother, Brother

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• My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self and such a commitment to the future and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and for us out of the total devastation in her life.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mom, Mother, Strong

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• My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "What These 3 Influential Women Want Girls Everywhere to Know". Interview with Lynn Sherr, communitytable.parade.com. March 8, 2014.

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• A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

  Princess Diana

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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  [Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

  Gilda Radner

  Mom, Mother, Glorious Life

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• She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mothers Day, Mom, Laughing

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• It may be those who do most, dream most.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.52, University of Toronto Press

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• The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Lying, Science, Pride

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• Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way. When we consider the development of chemistry as a whole, Ostwald's name like Abou ben Adhem's leads all the rest ... Ostwald was absolutely the right man in the right place. He was loved and followed by more people than any chemist of our time.

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft

  Teacher, Science, Men

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• Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.

  Mario Fernandez

  Life, Adversity, Bad Day

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• I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

  Santigold

  Fashion, Thinking, Random Things

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• When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.

  Jim Brosnan

  Baseball, Jobs, People

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• One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

  Edward Burgess Butler

  Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance

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• The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.

  William Beebe

  Art, Hard Work, Science

  "The Bird: Its Form and Function". Book by William Beebe, 1906.

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