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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!" – Richard M. DeVos	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. – William Hazlitt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. – Carl Jung	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history. – Eda J. Le Shan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. – Laurence J. Peter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status. – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. – Ambrose Bierce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. – Baltasar Gracian	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dr. Evil The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it. – Austin Powers International Man of Mystery	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. – Edward De Bono	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. – Henry Clay	added by anonymous 14 years ago
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness. – Charles Robert Darwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one – Richard M. Devos	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society. – Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile. – Yukio Mishima	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. – Hector Hugh Munro	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Leading the Jewish people is not easy-we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp-wittedness and polemics to a very high level. – Shimon Peres	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other. – Donald G. Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand. – Adlai Ewing Stevenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. – Roger Moore	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. – Carl Gustav Jung	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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