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• Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Team, Character, Skills

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• My friend Andre said to me, 'You know, Marissa, you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself to pick the right choice, and I've gotta be honest: That's not what I see here. I see a bunch of good choices, and there's the one that you pick and make great.' I think that's one of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten.

  Marissa Mayer

  "23 super-successful people share the best advice they ever received" by Jacquelyn Smith, www.businessinsider.com. March 19, 2015.

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• Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Keys

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• In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.

  Kevin Costner

  Girl, Mean, Mind

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• After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Always Trying, Soul

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• I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.

  Jason Wu

  Dad, India, Germany

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I eat, I always pick out the best parts in the middle and leave everything else on the side. It becomes a big sculptural mess, but there are nice compositional elements about how it all sits on the table.

  Elizabeth Neel

  Nice, Elements, Tables

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.

  Jenji Kohan

  Character, People, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Australia, Challenges, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Solidarity is the fundamental idea of European cooperation. If a country feels itself to be militarily threatened and calls for soldiers, weapons and sanctions, then that's what it gets. When governments say they need money from the structural funds to stabilize their economy, that's what they get. But you can't cherry pick solidarity.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.

  Rudolph Straeuli

  Team, Player, Captains

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• I don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial. Actually, it's not really living at all, because there is no life without death. It's two sides of the one. You can't pick up one side and say, I'm just going to use the 'heads' side. No. It doesn't work like that. You have to pick up both sides because nothing is promised to anyone in this world besides death.

  Curtis Jackson

  Views, Two Sides, Giving

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• If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?

  Timothy Keller

  Ifs, Dislike

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• We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

  Charles Koch

  Government, Loser, Winner

  "Charles G. Koch: Corporate Cronyism Harms America". "The Wall Street Journal", September 9, 2012.

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• What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.

  Mark Steyn

  America, Long Ago, Presidential

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• I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't cut anything off, don't limit yourself. Give it a good listen: you might find something in that goofy Sun Ra noise, that dissonance. Before I learned 'official musicality' - which you should avoid at all costs - I listened to some Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef and John Coltrane and that's where 'Journey to the Center of the Mind' came from. When you intentionally and aggressively pursue musical communication with those powerfully impactful musical geniuses, you will pick up something.

  Ted Nugent

  Communication, Cutting, Journey

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• You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

  Nick Murray

  Retirement, Worried, Certain

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• I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself up and say 'we shouldn't have done that' and move on.

  Robert Herjavec

  Moving, Looks, Done

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• Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

  Mary Lou Retton

  School, Kids, Practice

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• We as women analyze every little thing that comes out of men's mouths, but sometimes you've got to just pay their craziness no heed. Just pretend it's their "time of the month" and think about the dry-cleaning you've got to pick up.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Men, Thinking, Dry Cleaning

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• I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Children, People

  "Buffett: Dimon had to bare throat like a wolf in submission to watchdogs". Interview with Betty Liu, www.hitc.com. 2013.

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• Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.

  Tom Ford

  Bankers, Banking, Should

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• Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

  Zhuangzi

  Light, Earth, Way

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• They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!

  Bill Moyers

  Heart, Hands, Over You

  "This Isn't the Speech I Expected to Give Today". Bill Moyers' Address to the Environmental Grantmakers Association, Brainerd, MN, www.commondreams.org. October 16, 2001.

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• You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.

  Denzel Washington

  Black, Directors, Dollars

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