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" Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance. "

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" The most important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best. "

" My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in. "

" Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away. "

" Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases. "

" Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best and putting up a good show for the spectators. "

" I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing. "

" The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. "

" Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. "

Charles Kingsley

" What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language. "

" Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. "

" I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that. "

Harry Connick, Jr.

" To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person. "

" Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection. "

" My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate. "

" Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. "

" As a stylist, my goal is to help people be the best version of themselves. "

" From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution. "

Margo Georgiadis

" Sleep is the best meditation. "

" Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference. "

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" If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. "

Henry A. Wallace

" The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. "

" I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet. "

Luther Vandross

" My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly. "

" Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau. "

" I think the best solution to this challenge, and I accept there is a challenge with homophobic bullying, is to make sure we get rid of the bullying rather than feeling we have to take kids out of our schools and teach then somewhere else. That would be the best approach. "

" Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music. "

" Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. "

Louis D. Brandeis