If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
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Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a... JULIE KLAUSNER No matter what sort of car you are driving or how fast you drive, we all meet behind the same red li... MOE CIDALY Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are... DEYTH BANGER You have to focus on what you are doing, and what you are doing is driving. LARRY STARKEY Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for ... KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the fiel... VIRGIL THOMSON If you don't have a code of ethics or moral principles that you live by no matter what the consequen... MAURICE W. LINDSAY You can be all that you want to be. Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the ... VIRGIL THOMSON No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have... BARBARA DE ANGELIS No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have... BARBARA ANGELIS If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing ... DANA BRUNETTI I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success o... ZACHARY QUINTO The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER You are unique. No other person looks exactly like you SOTONYE ANGA When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ach... KEN KEYES JR. When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''a... KEN S. KEYES JR. you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a... MICHAEL POLLAN Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing... DR. PHIL It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy... DALE CARNEGIE When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that... TOMMY LASORDA You'll know you're doing something right if you feel you don't know what you're doing... if you know... NATASHA TSAKOS Who are you? A noise or a melody? Or may be you are a silence! If you are a silence, then you will b... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or... DALE CARNEGIE I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA It doesn't matter what you did or where you were, it matters where you are and what you're doing STEVE MARABOLI You can't be a good manager if you are doing everything yourself. REHAN WARIS It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you h... DALE CARNEGIE How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a ... SHUBHAM CHOUDHARY Ask yourself what you're doing differently than you did one year ago. If you're still doing the same... PRICE PRITCHETT This business is very challenging--you must get used to rejection no matter what level you are at. N... KRISTIN CHENOWETH Be all that you can be. You can be great. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Imagine for a moment as if you had never existed:
Would the ones who are closest to you be happier o... AVIS JOHN YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years b... ELIZABETH HAYDON I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing h... BILL MURRAY Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frus... SHANNON HOON YOU ARE BEHIND THE WORLD BECAUSE YOU ARE DOING WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING,BUT I AM AHEAD THE WORLD BECA... MARKHANDEYA If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing W. EDWARDS DEMING No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always chan... MADONNA When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space ... TOM HODGKINSON Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ... KAREN BENDER It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experienc... CHRISTINA ENEVOLDSEN If you are trying to buy a home, you have to be careful about what you are doing. JAY BUTLER You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, ... T-PAIN There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are ... NIKKI SIXX You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no ma... ED BRADLEY If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doin... WILL ROGERS The unconscious mind goes on doing things and creating problems. There is no wall at all that you ha... OSHO I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doi... BILL MURRAY If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. EDWARDS DEMING It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the righ... SHERYL SANDBERG It doesn't matter if you get 3,000 hits in 18 years or you get 3,000 hits in 22 years. You still hav... WADE BOGGS No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you... CYNTHIA OZICK I think more than anything, you should do what you love. If you love classical playwrights, seek out... JULIET RYLANCE You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing somethi... COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing somethi... COL. HARLAND SANDERS You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand. LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS no matter how little it might seem, if you are doing it for the Lord and you are doing it with a pur... SUNDAY ADELAJA There is something really amazing about you.. Your unique ideas and thoughts that you bring to this ... RACHEL HAMILTON It doesn't matter what you are going through! You can still shine!
No matter how dark is the night o... PHILIP T. M. To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... Sure you can do anything when talking or writing, it's not like living when you can only do what you... SAPPHIRE You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other cir... JACK YOUNGBLOOD You need to run and find shelter whether it's a car or a building or something like that, because if... LES OWEN Fashion can always be a part of your life no matter what shape or size you are. You don't need t... HAYLEY HASSELHOFF There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if yo... JAY HAKKINEN Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy... BENNY BLANCO You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other... JACK YOUNGBLOOD You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing somethi... COLONEL SANDERS Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow. UNKNOWN While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly fee... FRANKLIN ADAMS While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly fee... FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. EDWARDS DEMING If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what your
doing. BARBARA DEMING Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else. SOURCE UNKNOWN Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else. To come out of wood, & to be happy with yourself, you have to see the problem before you can solve i... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Space has its own unique smell. So whenever a vehicle docks, or if guys are out doing a spacewalk, t... SCOTT KELLY It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing e... DEYTH BANGER We don’t have to take rejection as a reflection of our self-worth. If somebody who is important (o... MELODY BEATTIE Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who i... JERRY DELLA FEMINA No matter what you do, people are gonna try to emulate you. Whether it's a dunk by Michael Jorda... CURTIS GRANDERSON The secret of success is before attempting anything, be very clear about why you are doing it.” If... BOHDI SANDERS You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You are NOT helpless, outnumbered or exposed… you never have been! All actions are sparked by a si... WAKE UP! MESSAGE You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going... EMERSON FITTIPALDI I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking a... AVI If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won... ERIC RIPERT No need to feel shame for what you are. DEYTH BANGER If you have made it this far doing nothing... imagine what you can do if you actually apply yourself... J-FRANCES Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best d... JOEL OSTEEN
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JOHN OATES My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. JOHN OATES I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high... JOHN OATES The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record ... JOHN OATES I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the ... JOHN OATES I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of ... JOHN OATES Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills h... JOHN OATES You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate ... JOHN OATES I'm a bit more grounded than Daryl. I'm more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the crea... JOHN OATES Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. 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To see the outpouring of love from the fans, the former players and the Range... GLORIA OATES This is just a very strong testimony to the life Johnny lead. GLORIA OATES It's absolutely awesome the turnout that we've had here. Friends from as far back as high school and... GLORIA OATES I am just going outside and may be some time. CAPTAIN LAWRENCE OATES This was a one-on-one encounter between an officer and a violent felon. And there's no question that... CHIEF DANIEL OATES It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like... JOYCE MEYER Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can... JOYCE MEYER As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if... JOYCE BROTHERS There is such a thing as bad publicity. JOYCE BROTHERS I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know abo... JOYCE BROTHERS I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped... JOYCE BROTHERS The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie ... JOYCE BROTHERS Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty ... JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The han... JOYCE BROTHERS