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643 Speaker Quotes

“Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.”
Pretend Rich Poor Great
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“When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.”

Talk Analytic Versus Intuitive
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What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.”
What Learned Necessity Inevitable
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“Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”

Reward Complexity Autonomy Connection
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“If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.”

Work-hard Assert Mind Imagination
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“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”

Good-decision Knowledge Understanding Swimming
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. “Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”

Truly-successful Decision-making Balance Deliberate
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Achievement is talent plus preparation.
Achievement Talent Plus Preparation
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No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Who Rise Year Fails
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Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.

Extraordinary Achievement Less Talent
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To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

Someone Best Friend Minimum
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“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning”
Hard-work Prison Sentence Meaning
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Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions … by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

First Impressions Generated Experiences
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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

Success Random-act Predictable Powerful
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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Success Function Doggedness Willingness
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Value World Inhabit People
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We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.

Spend Time Thinking Prestige
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The world we could have is so much richer than the world we have settled for.
World Have Much Richer
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There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

Advantages Material Resources Set
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The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence

Poorer Children Mind Better
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All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

Guarantee Long Searching Happiness
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There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

Power Fear Man Created
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You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

Think Poor Alternative Acting
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You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total surrender.

You Ready Accept Complete
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It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.

State Hopelessness Movement Direction
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The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

Plain Problem Create Feel
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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.
Never Slow Capture Life
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A fathers love builds your self confidence and makes you able to face the world without fear.
Fathers Self Confidence Face Fear
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There are too many things trying to make us afraid right now. Whenever you allow fear to take you over, you cannot stay focused enough to find solutions.

Trying Right Right Now Allow Fear
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Citizen for citizen, together we win!!!
Citizen Together Win For
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It’s our lives, it’s our people, it’s our country. We must win this battle against the corona virus pandemic, but it will require that we all do whatever we can. Together, we will win.

Our Lives Lives People Battle
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When we pull our resources together based on our different capacities, we can create a huge resource pool which empowers us to respond very quickly to multiple citizen led initiatives across the country, in areas of healthcare, awareness and welfare.

Resources Together Different Capacities Different
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I am a firm believer in the principle that “ two much + two little = enough”. Little drops of water they say, makes the mighty ocean. When we pull our resources together based on our different capacities, we can.

Firm Believer Principle Two Much
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All we have is TIME! Our lives are counted in the amount of time we are given, from our time of birth to our time of death!! TIME!! Kobe Bryant used his time productively to leave a legacy ! Since we don’t control.

Time Our Lives Lives Counted
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Life presents you a choice daily, your ability to choose right is about knowing who you are and having a sense of your journey and your desired destination.

Life Presents Life Presents Choice
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There is no knowledge without power Knowledge is an investment and you have to be invested in yourself.

Knowledge Without Power Knowledge Without Power
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Alright Born Die Getting
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Capitalism Garden Getting Plant
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Holding Least Metaphors Most
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Able Being Causes Class
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Against Behavior Books Homosexual
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Always Lies Live Stories
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Another Choice Control Created
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

Alien Believe Different DifferentPeople
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Again All-Time Answer Ask
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Continue Elaborate Elite Fall
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Acting Any Citizen CitizenKane
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I listen to music constantly while writing.

Constantly Listen Music While
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

Could Decades Few Hope
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Found History Lived Never
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