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«Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.»
Author: E. Joseph Cossman
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extra, hundreds, throw in, throw in the towel, towel, towels, watched, yard
«Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.»
Author: Gary Ryan Blair
| About:
Doing Your Best
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achieves, as required, between, careers, consistently, distance, extra, following, goals, merely, mile, more than, required, spend
«If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life- it's an exhalation of life and I think I you probably need a little touch of madness.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
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actor, exhalation, exhalations, extra, heights, it An, larger-than-life, larger, madness, temperament, temperaments, voltage
«Every crisis offers you extra desired power»
«A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.»
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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consistently, dollars, extra, faster, fast one, horse, millions, One In A Million, racehorse, runs, separates, The Winner, winner
«Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen.»
«Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
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Genius,
Perseverance
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brightness, claim, extra, perseverance
«An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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base, come across, conclude, continually, extra, founded, generalization, generalizations, indefinite, previous, taller, terrestrial, twenty one, watched, well-founded
«A horse cannot gain weight if not fed with extra fodder during the night; a man cannot become wealthy without earnings apart from his regular salaries.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
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earnings, extra, fodder, regular, salaries, wealthy, wealthy man
«Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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busy, collect, collects, crumpled, extra, garbage, garbage can, good guy, Good Thing, go around, guy, Meet The, napkin, napkins, party, Pretty Things, take out, Take That
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