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" A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. "

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" Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there. "

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" There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. "

" For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. "

Ernest Hemingway

" I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. "

" Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket. "

" For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. "

" Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. "

" Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. "

" I was able to get along with everybody. I really enjoyed all of those guys. They were unique in their own ways, and I think that's what made the sport fun. We had a great time laughing and having fun. "

" Where there is great love, there are always wishes. "

" The greatest wealth is to live content with little. "

" The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen. "

Jennifer Aniston

" A great manager is someone who says, 'You come to work with me, and I'll help you be as successful as possible; I'll help you grow. I'll help you make sure you're in the right role; I'll provide the relationship for you to understand and know yourself. And I want you to be more successful than me.' "

" I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's not as bad as ice cream, and during the hot summer months, it's a great way to just refresh. "

Caroline Sunshine

" I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work. "

" Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours? "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind. "

" I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition. "

" A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere. "

" Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. "

" You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen. "

" All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic. "

" The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. "

John F. Kennedy

" The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. "

" What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, 'Holy cow!' But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things. "

" A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy. "