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• The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.

  Adrian Slywotzky

  Basketball, Football, Games

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• I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.

  Bill Cosby

  Disappointment, Achievement, Way

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• I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place where I hope that the book knows what it's doing because right now I don't have a clue - I'm writing one scene after another like a man walking through a valley in thick fog, just able to see the path a little way ahead, but with no idea where it's actually going to lead him.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves- and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Thinking, Self, People

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

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• The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Giving, Documents

  "Interview: “John Tusa Interviews David Hockney” (2004)". Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, Thinking, People

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• Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Attitude, Emotional

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• Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

  H. G. Wells

  Watches, World, Way

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

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• GUESS WHERE I AM. CLUE? she texted back SWEAR U WON'T TELL A SOUL? U HAVE 2 ASK? I reluctantly texted,@ DINNER W. MARCIE'S DAD. #?@#$?!& MY MOM IS DATING HIM. TRAITOR! IF THEY GET MARRIED, U & MARCIE... COULD USE A LITTLE CONSOLATION HERE! DOES HE KNOW UR TEXTING ME? Vee asked. NO. THEY R INSIDE. I'M IN THE PARKING LOT ----COOPERSMITHS. THE PIMP. 2 GOOD 4 APPLEBEE'S, I SEE. I'M GOING 2 ORDER THE MOST EXPENSIVE THIN ON THE MENU. IF ALL GOES WELL,HIM GOING TO THROW HANK'S DRINK IN HIS FACE 2. ~Nora & Vee

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mom, Dad, Order

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• Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue

  Ilona Andrews

  Missing, Hook, Miss Marple

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Strikes: A Kate Daniels Novel: 3”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's Pliny the younger, the famous Roman writer," Amy supplied. She bent down to read the English portion of the tablet. "Right. In A.D. 79, Pliny chronicled the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It's one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of a major disaster." Dan yawned. "Doesn't this remind you of the clue hunt? You know–you telling me a bunch of boring stuff, and me not listening?

  Gordon Korman

  Thinking, Names, Guy

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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• You think Bernadette Maguire killed him?” “Uh… no. She’s, like I said, she’s old.” “Old people can kill people too.” “I know, but…” “She could be a ninja.” “She’s not a ninja, for God’s sake. She’s somebody’s great grandmother.” “I want you to think carefully about this, Kenny. Have you ever seen her with a sword?” “What?” “How about throwing stars?” “This is ridiculous.” “Have you ever seen her dressed up as a ninja? That would have been my first clue.” The girl sucked in her cheeks so she wouldn't laugh out loud.

  Derek Landy

  Girl, Stars, Grandmother

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• ...Generally people don't recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read. Those books are invariably described as "important"- which in my experience, pretty much means that they're boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Meaningful, Teacher, Book

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• Do you want to guess what's in here?" I asked Dash. "I think I've got it figured out already. There's a new supply of red notebooks in there, and you want us to fill them in with clues about the works of, say, Nicholas Sparks." "Who?" I asked. Please, no more broody poets. I couldn't keep up. "You don't know who Nicholas Sparks is?" Dash asked. I shook my head. "Please don't ever find out," he said.

  Rachel Cohn

  Notebook, Thinking, Want

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.230, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them or show the slightest interest. But I'm very aware of everything. I remember seeing an old film once where a father says to his son: "Son when your mouth's open you're not learning anything." If that's true then I'm well on the way to becoming the world's wisest woman.

  John Marsden

  Father, Son, Looks

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• Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Sitting, Able

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• Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.

  Margaret Atwood

  Jobs, Clever, Should Have

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• I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

  Ann Brashares

  Destiny, Littles, Coincidence

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.207, Delacorte Press

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• Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

  Simone Elkeles

  Love You, Facts, Needs

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Justice, Tao Of Pooh, All The Best

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• The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful.

  Janice Galloway

  Thinking, Phones, Order

  Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”

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• Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Soul, Inward

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.260, Random House

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• Then I asked her if she wanted to to the funeral, and my God, the look on her face. You'd think I'd asked her to drown the neighbor's cat." Admittedly, drowning the neighbor's cat didn't really clue me in as much as I would've liked. "So, she was angry?" He blinked back to me and stared. Like a long time.

  Darynda Jones

  Cat, Thinking, Long

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

  Chris Paul

  Oklahoma City, Cities, Tornadoes

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• There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Nuts, Together, Mystery

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