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Related The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Your ears love to hear, so speak to it SOTONYE ANGA Mes poumons sont remplis de l'air pur
mon esprit est ouvert et libéré, la sérénité remplit tous... JACOB MAHURIEN Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... LISA KLEYPAS The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL I mean they should take us to these nice places and then tell us what it is that these people do for... HORST CHRISTIAN Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend... CRAIG GROESCHEL The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important. JEFF OLSON There is no one right way. Just figure out what works for you! LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'... AYN RAND If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write anoth... LISA JAKUB You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL I wouldn’t change a thing Because all those things led me to this place And to you ELIZABETH EULBERG Quiet anger frightens me. The drunks, the idiots, the ones that rage easily - them I can handle. I k... KATIE MCGARRY I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You ar... JAMI ATTENBERG He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond. JOHNNIE DENT JR. A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD When you get great actors like that turning up and not being paid, then they all come for the right ... PAUL MCGUIGAN Until now, your money has told you what to do and how much to work. Now we’re going to turn that a... CELSO CUKIERKORN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it. J. KENNER Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD If you want to make impact in life, then chat a course for your life to follow SOTONYE ANGA I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ... GEORGES PEREC What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ... LISA J. SHULTZ Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA To love is to act. VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ... SHELLEY LUBBEN I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they d... ADRIENNE SHELLY If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force f... NEAL BOORTZ Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... ANTHONY LICCIONE Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA TAKE A STAND RIGHT NOW! BECAUSE tomorrow IS THE ONLY DAY OF THE WEEK THAT NEVER COMES!! PHILIP T. M. I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your... A. BALASUBRAMANIAM Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life is given. Success is not. That's exactly why many people do not succeed, because the path isn't... NICO DEAN FULGENZI That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself. KAREN MARIE MONING Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, p... JANE BENNETT Broken down into manageable chunks, the biggest projects become easy to conquer. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN By giving yourself less time, you'll work faster, concentrate more intensely, and perform at peak ef... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It takes almost as much effort to NOT do something, as it does to do it. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Often our biggest distractions are not external, but come from within. Get out of your own way! MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things ... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Some people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong goals. They work with extreme focus - but it doesn't ... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Your ability to sustain focus depends on how enjoyable and productive it is. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Take power breaks every hour. Schedule tougher tasks for the time when you are most productive. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Find your true passion. Tap into the endless inspiration & energy it provides. Your focus will o... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus can become an obsession... But your ability to sustain the drive to focus will depend upon how... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise. LORII MYERS We both know... that soon everything is going to end... ... This chat will be in the... DEYTH BANGER In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago... JESS ROW In life, you shall meet a person who is so much like you. You will have so much love and respect tha... SASHIL KUMAR I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they re... WAYNE ROONEY I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only invo... HELENA BONHAM CARTER Acting is the best job in the world... Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. The... BOB HOSKINS The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all... TAMORA PIERCE Adrenaline wants to kill you... DEYTH BANGER I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill... MALALA YOUSAFZAI How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER You have to give the audience what they want. Even if they tune in for 10 or 15 minutes it's nice to... JULIE CORDOVA It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell. DEYTH BANGER My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR Don’t keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. Tha... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Unlimited opportunities awaits the person who dare to seek. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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