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«Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.»
Author: Gloria Naylor
| About:
Art,
Friends,
Friendship,
Silence
| Keywords:
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«Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
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«None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.»
«Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
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«There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Greed,
Insecurity,
Jelousy,
Selfishness
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«The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.»
«The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Managers
| Keywords:
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«Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.»
«We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
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«We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.»
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