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JOHN RENMERDE You don't want to vilify your ego.
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NIGELLA LAWSON Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
MARK TWAIN You shouldn't vent and open up to your husband, your boyfriend, your friend, because they're...
KENDRA WILKINSON It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don'...
LADY BIRD JOHNSON Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.
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KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
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RICHARD P. FEYNMAN You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow...
JAKE OWEN The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down step...
ROGER MOORE Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don...
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DAVID ROBINSON Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accou...
TILMAN J. FERTITTA Don't let your dreams be dreams.
JACK JOHNSON You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.
DANIEL H. WILSON You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
PIERCE BROSNAN Your child cant hurt you if you dont accept the hurt. Let it go.
, JOINT CUSTODY WITH A JERK: RAISING A CHILD WITH AN UNCOOPERATIVE EX, 2011 Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.
KATORI HALL I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure g...
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GORDON BETHUNE Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every...
CLIFFORD STOLL Follow your heart. Do what you love. Because I was constantly struggling with that. If it's in y...
MAZ JOBRANI Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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RAHUL GANDHI You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos
RUDYARD KIPLING If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
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FRAN LEIGH It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judg...
RUTH J. SIMMONS If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
WAYNE DYER Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don'...
RICHARD M. NIXON Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.
AVERY BROOKS Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.
JOHN DARNIELLE If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone....
CARMEN ELECTRA Recognizing your talents doesn't mean believing they're limitless. Accepting your strengths ...
GINA BARRECA Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourse...
T. J. PERKINS Publicity doesn't work for books. It really doesn't. All it does is get your name in front o...
KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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DEBI MAZAR Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you'...
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ALEX RODRIGUEZ Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people k...
ALEX CHIU In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any dif...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
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JANET JACKSON If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
CHARLIE PARKER Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
VIN SCULLY If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. J...
CYNTHIA NIXON Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise wha...
MARIO TEGUH I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't ma...
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KAREN FINERMAN A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bou...
MICHAEL ANGARANO It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you...
KEN ADAM When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your car...
JAMES CORDEN You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.
ROBERT PATRICK Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That'...
SHELLEY MORRISON Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.
JERRY SEINFELD For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.
DANNY MEYER You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire se...
COLIN POWELL Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC You're created not to conform. You're unique. Find your lane. No one is like you. Your like never ha...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working...
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with yo...
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RICHARD ROHR If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disco...
NIECY NASH Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram...
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KIMBERLY ELISE When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are to...
KEITH HARING Don't feed your ego with my soul.
ARZUM UZUN If you don't like me, it's your problem.
KAT DENNINGS You don't want to work so hard that you can't enjoy your guests.
LETITIA BALDRIGE The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to giv...
ANTHONY JOSHUA If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab...
KELLY ROWLAND You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
IAN MCSHANE Don't add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answer...
M. J. ROSE Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y...
LIONEL RICHIE If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don'...
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COLIN POWELL It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my positi...
COLIN POWELL seeing some convergence of views.
COLIN POWELL Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
COLIN POWELL The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in ...
COLIN POWELL the level of a mammoth new campaign.
COLIN POWELL We wanted it to be a special program of the State Department. Randy worked for me.
COLIN POWELL Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earne...
COLIN POWELL