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" Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers. "

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" It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time. "

Melanie Griffith

" I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast. "

" Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. "

" The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. "

" We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream. "

" People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling. "

" By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle? "

Abraham Lincoln

" One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. "

" Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. "

Anna Letitia Barbauld

" 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. "

" Never let a trend get in the way of creating a great outfit for yourself. "

" Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. "

" In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check. "

" Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. "

" Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others. "

" Habit is a great deadener. "

" A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked. "

" There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction. "

" I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy. "

" The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. "

Johannes Kepler

" Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me. "

" That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face. "

Frances McDormand

" The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle. "

Swami Sivananda

" Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy. "

" Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. "

Mike Krzyzewski

" We grow small trying to be great. "

E. Stanley Jones

" Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is. "

" I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way. "