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WRITER GRADED You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE I will not let me tell me what to do I listen to what needs to be done
WILLEM VAN EEKELEN How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, g...
GERMANY KENT The first job is to get both buildings cleaned and decontaminated. Once we have that done we'll have...
GLENN MENARD For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?"
"Cant help it. It's the company I keep.
KAMILA SHAMSIE Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I always tell clients you have to be able to remember why you chose to do a movie: to always be able...
BRYAN LOURD What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
DAVID BAILEY People talk and walls listen. So be careful what you do and say. Not everyone see's what you do but ...
POATE J MATAIRAVULA Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy
EVAN THOMAS Every time you listen to the radio, you listen to Robert Moog's influence.
CHARLES CARLINI Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... People are always trying to tell you how they feel. Some of them say it outright, and some of them, ...
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AMY IPPOLITI Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO If you want someone who will listen to you every time, do everything you tell them to do, and always...
ANONYMOUS You cant always have what you want but it's important to want what you have.
HANNA SKYRING If you always do what you've always done , then you'll always get what you always got . . .and while...
TONY NCIS Tell me what you listen to and I’ll tell you who you are.” Paul
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO You cant be in a position where you dont know what you are going to do next.
ERIC GREEN Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should becom...
ADAM MICHNIK Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.
LEO SZILARD Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
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BRIELL ADAMS Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?"
"Because you will never again be able to keep it ...
PAULO COELHO There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
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"You shouldn't follow dreams...
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GEORGE MACDONALD Tell me I cant, I won't hear you.
AMARE STOUDEMIRE I cant tell you how pleased I am,
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GREGORY BENFORD Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? W...
SHAUN TAN What you cant forget... God cant remember!
JOHN F. MACARTHUR JR. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it c...
FRANCES BURNETT I lied," I said. ...
"I know it," he said.
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CATHERINE M. WALLACE WHY YOU DO, is more important than WHAT YOU DO.
RODNEY LOVELL If you want to do something, then it will be done!!!
SIDDHARTH GAURAV RAVAT But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn....
WALTER E. WILLIAMS I always tell what I believe to be the truth. It is undoubtedly the most difficult, and freighting t...
BOBBY W. MILLER I refuse to be your puppet, you cant tell me, brainwash me,label me, i am me.
HANNAH HOWITT IF U ARE ABLE TO SEE THINGS THE BIGGER THAN YOUR EYES, THEN WHY CANT YOU THINK SOMETHING BIGGER THAN...
MARKHANDEYA If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the bos...
BUBBA WATSON At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that...
FRANCIS HODGSON BURNETT What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them ...
RAFER JOHNSON Don’t waste your time trying to impress others to satisfy their ego. do what you love & love what ...
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JAMES CAAN Do the thing and you will have the power.
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CRAIG GROESCHEL Why do you listen to falsehood? It shall vanish like a gust of wind.
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RAY BRADBURY You cant close this place, ... What will I do for breakfast?
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MAYOR BRYAN BAPTISTE Effective communication is based upon a structured dialogue: You talk; I listen; I tell you what I h...
TERENCE T. GORSKI Deadbeat dads!! It is time to step up and be a man. Call your children and tell them sorry for being...
NERISSA IRVING If you always do, what you've always done, You'll always get, what you've always got!
JOHN BANKSON If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
HENRY FORD The secret to life is...a secret so i cant tell you
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'...
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ROBERT ALMINANA I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by...
CHARLES C. FINN No matter what you want to do, there's always something else that has to be done first.
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RICK PITINO If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
ANTHONY ROBBINS You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ...
SARA PADDISON You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ...
MAHATMA GANDHI You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
CRAIG GROESCHEL 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:

1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
GERMANY KENT You meet dozens of people who tell you you can't do it. Surround yourself with the people who believ...
HEATHER GRACE STEWART Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be?
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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