Dozen Quotes

• Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

  Dave Ramsey

  Ideas, People, Dimes

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• No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

  Louis L'Amour

  Memories, Association, Ends

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.937, Bantam

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• There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

  Jim Rohn

  Differences, Half, Six

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• With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

  Julian Casablancas

  Trying, Way, Why Not

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• You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Success, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 28, 2014

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• Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

  Douglas Horton

  Ideas, Dimes, Brilliant Ideas

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• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Couple

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Ideas, People, Dimes

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• Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Years, Ideas

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• When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Character, Emotional

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.65, Grove Press

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• Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, "How did he do it? He must be a genius!"

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Science, People, Giving

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• There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the schools for the past quarter century. It comes as no surprise to those who have known of dozens of cases of scientists who have been hounded out of jobs by silly disloyalty charges, and kept out of all professional employment by widespread blacklisting practices.

  Edward Condon

  Jobs, Silly, Teaching

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• One rose says more than the dozen.

  Wendy Craig

  Rose

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• But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

  Tom Hanks

  Views, Political, Dimes

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

  Lope de Vega

  Life, Flower, Book

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• I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

  Christopher Columbus

  Men, Glasses, Boards

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.46

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.

  John B. Watson

  Artist, Years, Doctors

  "Behaviorism". Book by John B. Watson (p.82), 1930.

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• It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Alaska, Half

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Military, War

  "Buy American. I Am." by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

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• One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Shoulders, One Man

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• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Football

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• If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Humorous, Office, Doubt

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• Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

  Brad Pitt

  Dimes

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• Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Team, Dimes, Actors

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.

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• Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

  Chris Frantz

  Christmas, Two, Track

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