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As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.


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TIM WISE I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Wh...
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TIM O'BRIEN The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are ...
TIM HUDSON You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preach...
TIM HUDSON Sure, I like ice cream, but when you keep a healthy lifestyle, it's: Do you prefer sweets and cr...
TIM HOWARD I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.
TIM TEBOW Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal.
TIM COOK I don't complain when it's sunny.
TIM HOWARD We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.
TIM TEBOW Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as t...
TIM JACKSON I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Chri...
TIM TEBOW Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
TIM CAHILL America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.
TINY TIM Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for someb...
TIM HETHERINGTON Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious ...
TIM HARFORD I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.
TIM COOK Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
TIM BURTON You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible m...
TIM MATHESON I think there are a lot of things out there that are humorous that people don't realize until yo...
TIM CONWAY Firms produce goods for households - that's us - and provide us with incomes, and that's eve...
TIM JACKSON Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a h...
TIM O'BRIEN The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, b...
TIM RYAN