But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.


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I have had several say, 'I don't want to go,' and I said, 'I'm sorry, you're going.'
DAVID HASTINGS
They either go with a family member or they go with us, but this building is not safe sitting on the...
DAVID HASTINGS
It is clear that the incumbent president allowed the state authorities to be used in a manner which ...
ALCEE HASTINGS
The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finishe...
MICHAEL HASTINGS
If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of s...
ALCEE HASTINGS
Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of gen...
ALCEE HASTINGS
The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will b...
ALCEE HASTINGS
Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanne...
ALCEE HASTINGS
The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven&...
ALCEE HASTINGS
The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israe...
ALCEE HASTINGS
While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various ...
ALCEE HASTINGS
Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of...
ALCEE HASTINGS
Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person...
ALCEE HASTINGS
To this day, I don't know who called - I think it was an ex-girlfriend.
JAMES HASTINGS
We?re in a good region with a lot of vitality and small business growth.
JAMES HASTINGS
No. But I can give you a nice special on 47.
JAMES HASTINGS
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
JAMES HASTINGS
Virtually every support-paying person, unless he or she doesn't see the children at all, would be in...
HONEY HASTINGS
There was a time when 'till death' wasn't a long commitment. There also was a time when it didn't ma...
HONEY HASTINGS
People don't seem to change in tandem, so keeping a marriage together over time can be a challenge.
HONEY HASTINGS
If feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself ali...
MICHAEL HASTINGS
We are really in a race against the clock. He is doing really well right now, but we know that the m...
LINDA HASTINGS
War needs to be waged on this disease. Twenty years ago if a child was diagnosed with cancer it was ...
LINDA HASTINGS
Of course it was absolutely, positively the most shocking thing in the entire world, because he had ...
LINDA HASTINGS
A paradigm shift is taking place in Europe and Asia Pacific, with consumers increasingly using their...
JEFF HASTINGS
The Queen must still harbor fears for the future.
MAX HASTINGS
He's been wanting to do this forever, ... Mike began writing in sixth grade.
MICHAEL HASTINGS
While voting was generally calm, the election day process deteriorated progressively during the coun...
ALCEE HASTINGS
There must be other races out there, watching our tiny yellow sun glimmering in their unknown field ...
ALICE HASTINGS BRADLEY
Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Belief in God through Christ is th...
JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL
It does not make a very great difference what side of Christ's work attracts us and appeals to us mo...
JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL
The great question for us now is, Do we believe in that love of God which Christ taught by His words...
JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL
Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopfor...
HORACE L. HASTINGS
It pains me to report that progress noted in the pre-election period was undermined by significant d...
ALCEE L. HASTINGS
Sometimes you have to find the strength to forgive someone every time you think of them. It might ge...
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS
Love is an action, not an explaination.
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS
Love is the hardest thing to describe, easiest thing felt, most wanted, fragile, life-changing pheno...
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS
The greatest honor is your children looking up to you one day with respect, where you inspire them t...
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS
If only love could cure illness, heartache, poverty, or loss. Or, if everyone actually cared, took t...
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS