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• As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

  Richard Branson

  People, Leader, Praise

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• If you have that group of people who are both nice and also creative, then you have surprises like a room with monkeys in them. That has taken a very good scene and just made it a great scene. I want my movies to be visually interesting and to have a lot of energy and be colorful and full of life.

  Richard Shepard

  Nice, Taken, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

  David Brooks

  Trying, Describing, Happenings

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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• God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."

  N. T. Wright

  Creator God, Want, Creation

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I was more of kind (who was better at) building businesses and selling them. That was a big thing for me. I was very good at that. I wasn't good as a boss. I was either your best friend or your worst enemy. I didn't balance the two very well. (So) I sold them.

  Drew Waters

  Worst Enemy, Two, Boss

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I have very good friends who are in the army and also friends within the police force. When I say friends, people who love my music and who actually love the messages within my music.

  Thomas Mapfumo

  Good Friend, Army, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked to for some time, who then helped me close various deals.

  danah boyd

  Levels, Linkedin, Contact

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so very good at anticipating threats and appreciating just how difficult it is to build up stable democracies, to make the investments and sustainable development that we must as a nation if we are to attack the root causes of these sorts of instability.

  Martin O'Malley

  Military, Roots, Appreciate

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• I've had a lot of coaches in my life, but I've only had a few very good ones. So, I try to take from the best ones and apply those to what I do and think and with anyone I work with in terms of how to motivate people and work with them.

  Gabe Polsky

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Grace, Fruit

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Law, Government

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.108, Bantam Classics

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• I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Airplane, Army

  "Kurt Vonnegut". Book by James Lundquist, 1971.

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• Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

  Henry James

  Ideas, Stories, Courses

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.211, University of Chicago Press

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• Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.

  William Zinsser

  Running, Determination, Character

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• When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.

  Usain Bolt

  Football, Thinking, Would Be

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• My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.'

  Jorge Posada

  Dad, Smart, Games

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• I'm a very good 15- to 18-foot shooter.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Feet, Shooter

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• The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Evil, People, Needs

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• If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

  Dan Uggla

  Defense, Hitting, Bother

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• I started out as a television news anchor but I wasn't very good at it. I think I was too positive. I wanted to begin every newscast by saying, 'Good evening, in the news tonight...everything's great! Go to sleep. We'll let you know if anything important comes up.'

  Bob Burg

  Sleep, Thinking, Anchors

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• I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Writing, Car

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.

  Mark Lawrence

  Thinking, Men, Feel Good

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• No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.

  William George Jordan

  Gratitude, Echoes, Deeds Done

  William George Jordan (1913). “The Power of Truth”

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• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  Natalie Massenet

  Fashion, Moving, Past

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• Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Loss, Lovely

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