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Frank Lloyd

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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Patrick Dempsey

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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Oswald Chambers

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Hermann Hesse

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Hermann Hesse

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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Franz Kafka

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hermann Hesse

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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Hermann Hesse

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There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

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Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.

Hillary Clinton

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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

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Florence Nightingale

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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

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I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

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The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.

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People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Frank Lloyd

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Frank Lloyd

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Patrick Dempsey

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Oswald Chambers

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hermann Hesse

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Hermann Hesse

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Franz Kafka

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Franz Kafka

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Franz Kafka

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Ovid

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hermann Hesse

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Hermann Hesse

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Hillary Clinton

Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.

Hillary Clinton

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Florence Nightingale

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Florence Nightingale

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Florence Nightingale

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Florence Nightingale

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Hippocrates

For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.

Frank Sinatra

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Howard Schultz

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Howard Schultz

The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.