The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward. - Elbert Hubbard

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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

Elbert Hubbard

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Counts, Done, Knows, Men, Risk

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If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.

Loyalty, Sports, Heart, Wind, Remember, Work

Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.

Determination, Dream, Dreams, Motivational, Persistence, Step

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Agriculture, Football, Relation, Sports

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

Business, Fight, Fighting, Life Is, Struggle

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Children, Parenting, Parents, Too Much

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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

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Jorge Luis Borges

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

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Barbara Crampton

I watch the energy between the actors. That's the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.

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David Hewson

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

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Jon Spencer

When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels. . . it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.

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