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    Kahlil Gibran
    “It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: art
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    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art
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    John Keats
    “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
    ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats
    tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, creativity, leonardo-da-vinci
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    Groucho Marx
    “Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: art, humor
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    Ansel Adams
    “You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, photography
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    John Lennon
    “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: art, beatles, confidence, ego, music, self-confidence
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    Hannah Harrington
    “He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
    ― Hannah Harrington, Saving June
    tags: art, music, pain, power-of-music
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, bad-influence, be-yourself, behaviour, believe-in-yourself, callow, childishness, company, etiquette, good-behaviour, good-quality, immature, immaturity, maturity, mediocre, mediocrity, negative-influence, negative-people, outstanding, peculiar, peculiarity, presence, quality, sensitivity, single, stand-alone
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    Sherman Alexie
    “Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
    tags: commitment, excellence, graduation, perseverance, quality
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Most people buy the highest quality television sets, only to watch the lowest quality television shows.
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    ― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
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    Jarod Kintz
    “For just over my price range, I can get something way under my quality expectation level. Thanks, inflation!”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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    Edsger W. Dijkstra
    “Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.”
    ― Edsger W. Dijkstra
    tags: abilities, quality, standards
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    Henry Ford
    “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: quality
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    John D. MacDonald
    “...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.”
    ― John D. MacDonald, Free Fall in Crimson
    tags: quality, thoroughness, work-ethic
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  • #17
    “Quality begins on the inside... then works its way out.”
    ― Bob Moawad
    tags: quality
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    Criss Jami
    “For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: 6th-sense, acumen, agnosticism, apologetics, apologist, atheism, atheist, burden-of-proof, christian, christianity, comprehension, creation, demanding, disappointment, evidence, existence, existence-of-god, faith, god, gratefulness, grave, insult, intelligence, perception, philosophy, physical, proof, quality, refusal, science, scientific-method, senses, sixth-sense, skepticism, spiritual, spiritual-realm, strength, strength-of-spirit, supernatural, theism
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    Jeannette Walls
    “She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.”
    ― Jeannette Walls
    tags: admiration, inspirational, life, quality
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    Jaron Lanier
    “There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within the human mind, or you can believe we just don't understand what quality in a mind is yet, even though we might someday. Either of those opinions allows one to distinguish quantity and quality. In order to confuse quantity and quality, you have to reject both possibilities. The mere possibility of there being something ineffable about personhood is what drives many technologists to reject the notion of quality. They want to live in an airtight reality that resembles an idealized computer program, in which everything is understood and there are no fundamental mysteries. They recoil from even the hint of a potential zone of mystery or an unresolved seam in one's worldview. This desire for absolute order usually leads to tears in human affairs, so there is a historical reason to distrust it. Materialist extremists have long seemed determined to win a race with religious fanatics: Who can do the most damage to the most people?”
    ― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
    tags: materialism, personhood, quality, quantity, religion
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    Felix Adler
    “The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.”
    ― Felix Adler
    tags: personality, quality, self, spirituality
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adventures, attitude, chasing, choices, class, competition, confidence, crossroads, dating, dignity, disconnecting, experiences, finding-happiness, freedom, goals, humility, journeys, joy, knowing-your-worth, lessons, letting-go, marriage, men, move-on, one-path, paths, positive-attitude, pride, quality, relationships, respect, right-path, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, strong-women, tests, the-future, understanding, unrequited-love, validation, value, warrior-women, white-path, winning, women, women-empowerment, your-worth
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: class, confident-women, desperate, dignity, fools, higher-standards, integrity, letting-go, moving-on, quality, self-confidence, self-respect, self-worth, warrior-women
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever heard someone say their life sucked because they fed the homeless? Made their children laugh? Or, bought a toy for a needy child at Christmas time?”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: achievement, altruism, attitude, change, character, charity, choose-the-right, community, crossroads, desires, direction, directions, ego, families-forever, family, family-projects, family-sharing, fullfillment, goals, happiness, homeless, humanity, joy, life, low-self-esteem, morals, narcissist, needs, needy, new-beginnings, obsessed, obsession, parenting-101, people, perspective, quality, refocus, refocusing, responsibilites, seeking-approval, self-absorbed, selfishness, service, service-projects, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, stuck, values, wants, what-matteres, white-path
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: against, attack, bad-people, brand, conquer, conquering, conspiracy, criticism, critics, dirty, downfall, enemies, gossip, high-quality, image, impurity, media, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, negativity, paint, painting, perfect, pure, purity, quality, rebel, slander, snow, stain, stains, sully, win, winning
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Networking is more quality, and less quantity. It’s better to form a solid connection with one new person, than a liquid connection with ten. You don’t want people to think you drink too much.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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    Bryant McGill
    “The quality of your life hinges on your attitudes and offerings.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
    tags: attitude, life, offerings, quality
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  • #28
    “Quality is not for compromise.”
    ― Dee Dee Artner
    tags: business, entrepreneurship, millionaire, millionaire-focus, millionaire-mindset, quality, relationships, success
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    Paul Bamikole
    “You can not rise above your understanding, yet our understanding largely stems from the quality and quantity of knowledge we have been privileged to acquire.”
    ― Paul Bamikole
    tags: knowledge, quality, understanding
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  • #30
    “When u practice something with conscious mind n then continue practicing the same even with sub-conscious mind, You Master it..”
    ― honeya
    tags: brain-training, master, mastery, perfection, perfectionist, practice, quality, sales, train, train-your-brain, training, training-management
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