My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'


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Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
EMILY DICKINSON
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON
For Love is Immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON
I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gav...
EMILY DICKINSON
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev...
EMILY DICKINSON
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then th...
EMILY DICKINSON
Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors su...
EMILY DICKINSON
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON
Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify...
JANICE DICKINSON
If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little leg...
MICHAEL DICKINSON
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
EMILY DICKINSON
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSON
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
EMILY DICKINSON
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
EMILY DICKINSON
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
EMILY DICKINSON
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone...
EMILY DICKINSON
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
EMILY DICKINSON
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSON
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
EMILY DICKINSON
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
EMILY DICKINSON
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - a...
EMILY DICKINSON
Fortune befriends the bold.
EMILY DICKINSON
What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have ...
RACHEL DICKINSON
Growing older doesn't bother me.
ANGIE DICKINSON
I dress for women and I undress for men.
ANGIE DICKINSON
My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
ANGIE DICKINSON
I played poker every Saturday night for 35 years with him and Lenore, ... I loved them beyond the mu...
ANGIE DICKINSON
President Kennedy loved the entertainment world, ... We were asking him -- he was newly in office --...
ANGIE DICKINSON
They were larger than life all the time. That was no act.
ANGIE DICKINSON
Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's ...
ANGIE DICKINSON
You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always jus...
ANGIE DICKINSON
I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off.
ANGIE DICKINSON
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the he...
EMILY DICKINSON
A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a muc...
MICHAEL DICKINSON