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• Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Inspire, Desire, Loser

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• Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Character, Weakness, Why Not

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• The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read.

  William Monahan

  Reading, Understanding, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• In New York, I'm playing in a church, solo, doing instrumental stuff. There's talk of doing more, like, installation-type things with some of the specimen horns I've played through. Just filling a room in a museum with these horn-speaker sculptures and then making loops that run all day, and you walk around the room and sort of mix the sound by where you stand. That's all way in the future, but that kind of stuff is a different way of thinking about performing.

  Andrew Bird

  Running, New York, Thinking

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.

  Chris Abani

  Book, Writing, Journey

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• You never know where you stand - and I like that. I like to be on edge.

  Danny Dyer

  Knows, Edges

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

  Ann Brashares

  Writing, Character, Age

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 25, 2013

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• There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

  Sarah Dessen

  Disappointment, World, Shifting

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.134, Penguin

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• So how was it?" she asked. "Kissing Curran?" "I can't let him kiss me again, because if he does, I'll sleep with him." Andrea blinked. "Well," she said finally, "At least you know where you stand.

  Ilona Andrews

  Sleep, Kissing, Doe

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.110, Penguin

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• A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.' It says 'Death has come for you! Flee or be killed where you stand!

  Steve Hockensmith

  Warrior, Mrs Bennet, Tea

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• Before we go, I gotta know: If mind-reading abilities are real, there's something else I wondered if fiction got right about vampires-" "Ask me if I sparkle and I'll kill you where you stand," Bones cut him off with utmost seriousness.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Real, Reading, Cutting

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• Ask me if I sparkle and I’ll kill you where you stand.” (Bones)

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sparkle, Bones, Ask Me

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• When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right

  Fiona Apple

  Kings, Fall, Fighting

  "Are these really the worst album titles of all time?". featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. September 19, 2007.

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• What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Two, Feet

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• It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

  Ann Brashares

  Character, Age, Fleeting

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 06, 2011

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• The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Past, Vision

  "The Paris Review : Writers at Work", 3rd series, Viking Penguin, (p. 29), April 1962.

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• I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.

  Karen Finney

  Running, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.

  Vimala Thakar

  Travel, Journey, Feet

  Vimala Thakar (1986). “Blossoms of Friendship”, p.58, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

  David Morrissey

  Thinking, Surprise, Goodness

  "Q&A: The Walking Dead's David Morrissey on The Governor's Revenge". Interview with TJ Kosinski, www.esquire.com. February 08, 2013.

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• I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.

  Jim Thome

  Team, Play, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That’s what I’ve always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.

  Hedi Slimane

  Fashion, Luxury, Design

  "Hedi Slimane Responsible For Skinny Jeans" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.

  Hedi Slimane

  Dream, Fashion, Luxury

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• I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

  John Updike

  Architecture, Sometimes, Good And Bad

  John Updike (1991). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  Napoleon Hill

  Waiting, Tools, May

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.107, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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