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• Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

  Joyce Brothers

  Motivational, Cheer, Inspirational Life

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• The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

  Dustin Penner

  Team, Fall, Hockey

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• It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

  Ivan Illich

  Art, Learning, People

  Ivan Illich (1974). “Mission and Midwifery: Essays on Missionary Formation”

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• Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Meditation, Way

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.

  Alexander Whyte

  Prayer, Men, Thinking

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• The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Goal

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.43, CCEL

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• Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. The more time we spent together, the more I could imagine it lasting in the future. That’s never happened to me before, and I’m not sure it’ll ever happen again. I’ve never been in love with anyone before you came along — not real love anyway…not like this. And I’d be a fool if I let you slip away without a fight

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Fighting, Missing

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• You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

  Daniel Handler

  Popcorn, Window, Steam

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• I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Numbers

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• Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide with no consequences. For every moment you waste deliberating today, the Oak King will be in the hands of my torturers, experiencing the most excruciating pain. Your delay extends that agony.” “Oh, irony,” murmured Dorian.

  Richelle Mead

  Kings, Pain, Hands

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1403, Zebra Books

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• Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.

  Sebastian Junger

  Men, Order, Games

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• In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

  Anne Frank

  Reality, Sentimentality

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.25, Bantam

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• Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Sadness, Fog, Finals

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• No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Dating, Twenties

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• You don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Coyote “Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade. More times than not, it injures the one who wields it most of all.” – Choo Co La Tah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kings, Talking, Numbers

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• You’re seriously not joking?” – Sundown “Really? How many more times are you going to ask me that? I could be on a beach right now with my wife, son, and daughter, baking in the sun while they frolic and play. Am I? No. I’m here, and I want nothing more than to yank you around with bullshit ’cause this gets me off more than my wife running in a bikini.” – Zarek

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Daughter, Running, Beach

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• Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and sharing The Grateful Dead and James Taylor with me in the middle of the night, and believing me when I say that you could be bigger than both of them put together, and not making fun of me for straightening out my french fries or pointing my shoelaces in the same direction, and letting me pout when I don't get my own way, and pretending that if I play "Flower Drum Song" one more time you won't throw me and the record out the window

  Steve Kluger

  Song, Fun, Grateful

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• My name is Cassie Palmer and I’ve cheated death more times than anyone has a right to expect. In the last two months, I’ve been shot, stabbed, beaten and blown up a few dozen times, and that doesn’t count all the magical ways I’ve almost been killed. I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first.

  Karen Chance

  Names, Two, Long

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt The Moon: Cassie Palmer”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Fall, Doors

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• For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

  A. S. Byatt

  Two, Three, Lasts

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• You’re a goner, Donovan. When a hungry man spends more time lookin’ at his woman than eatin’ , he’s in trouble.

  Christine Feehan

  Men, Trouble, Hungry

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• I only date college guys.” “You don’t know any college guys,” Kami pointed out. Angela’s gaze went to Kami, and she smiled. “Which leaves me with more time for napping.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  College, Guy, Leaving Me

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• LUCAS: I've done a couple from memory but they aren't the same. Can't quite get the shape of your jaw. The line of your neck. And your lips. I need to spend more time staring at them and less time tasting them. ME: I can't say i agree with that notion. LUCAS: More of both, then.

  Tammara Webber

  Couple, Memories, Needs

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• What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes. 'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.' 'Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?

  Angela Carter

  Country, Simple, Squad

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• One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, One Day

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 16, 2017

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