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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Work, Men, Discovery

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• Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Character, Men, Needs

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• The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

  Andrew Greeley

  Leadership, Ice, Church

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• I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

  Andrew Young

  Life, Dream, Believe

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• Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.

  James Paul Gee

  Thinking, Playing Games, Computer Literacy

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• Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, Want, Way

  Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.140, Baker Books

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• When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.

  Henry Cloud

  People, Leader, Brain

  Henry Cloud (2013). “Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Running, Technology, Race

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• We lead in exporting jobs.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Jobs, Politics

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• Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Mad, Water

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• There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?

  Susan Jacoby

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Actors, Film, Chosen

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• The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times, one of them may take the lead in developing a particular idea, only to yield to the other subject as focus shifts. But altogether, the two interact in a virtuous circle of mutual influence.

  Edward Frenkel

  Math, Circles, Ideas

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• Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

  Roger Ebert

  Office, President, Politics

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• Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate people, to educate them, to bring out the best in them. Ours is a less authoritarian leadership. I think women tend to play hardball less often. This is the trend of office politics anyway: the days of warring factions are over. We're talking now in terms of cooperation, and I think that is the game women play best.

  Muriel Fox

  Leadership, Men, Thinking

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• Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Reflection, Evil

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• Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

  Ed Asner

  College, Play, Acting

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• I think Melissa McCarthy is a force of nature. She's just incredible. And it's purely her talent that has rocketed her in such little time from a marvelous supporting role in "Bridesmaids" to being the lead in several films that are coming out this year. She's extraordinary.

  Seth Gordon

  Thinking, Years, Roles

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.

  Kirstie Alley

  Class, Acting, Agents

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• Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

  Peter Drucker

  Waiting, Management, Obsolete

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.172, Routledge

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• America is in a newly competitive position around the world, and unless we keep our lead in education for all of our people and do the research along with that, other nations will start outdoing us and they will be leaders in the world.

  John Glenn

  America, People, Leader

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• We have carbon in the atmosphere. That is a material in the wrong place problem. It's just like what I said about the lead. Lead in the biosphere is not good. Carbon in the atmosphere (over natural levels) is a problem.

  William McDonough

  Atmosphere, Levels, Problem

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting.

  Kevin Bacon

  Fighting, Blood, Gigs

  "Kevin Bacon on ‘I Love Dick’, ‘Tremors’, and Becoming a TV Actor". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 24, 2016.

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• It`s been a long and tumultuous relationship between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that started off more or less as allies during the Republican primary. As Trump took the early lead in polls, Cruz stuck with the strategy of drafting off of the front-runner waiting for the moment to make his move.

  Chris Hayes

  Moving, Long, Waiting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Rent Control was an interesting movie. It was directed by... I had done a couple of plays off Broadway, and this Italian director came, his name was Gian Luigi Polidoro, and he determined I was the person to play the lead in his low-budget comedy. He'd won an award at the Venice Film Festival, and... He was, y'know, a skilled director.

  Brent Spiner

  Couple, Italian, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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