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• We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

  Jeff Bezos

  Educational, Successful, Years

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• The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

  Aaron Levie

  Educational, Technology, Trying

  "Why Consumer Style Sells in the Corporate World: 10 Questions with Box CEO Aaron Levie". Interview with Sarah Mitroff, www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Ideas

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.124, Harvard University Press

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• The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.

  William James

  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.

  Ken Weber

  Autumn, Wind, Nuts

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• One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

  Joe Hyams

  Basketball, Powerful, Exercise

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.107, Bantam

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• Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do whatever it takes. Kids that are more into themselves will not do that. They will take care of themselves and get more individual when things are tough.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Team, Kids

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• The first shot does not beat you.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Coaching, Doe

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• At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Boston, Years

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• If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Success, Desire, Rich

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• God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Garden, Perfection

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Law, Cities

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• To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

  Minoru Mori

  Leadership, Strong, Ambition

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• Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ambition, Mind, Towers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.35

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• But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance, I'd just take the solving of the how-to problems for granted. The first thing I'd provide would be festivals.

  Ralph Borsodi

  Friendship, Real, Justice

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• Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Garden, Doe

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Freedom, Real, Exercise

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by Wilhelm von Humboldt, translated by Joseph Coulthard. Chapter 1, 1854.

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• First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.

  Robert Collier

  Mean, Roots, Growth

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• My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me.

  Andy Moog

  Team, Hockey, Player

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• Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the lumber to Gordie's head. Later Howe retalliated and wanted to let the kid know he wasn't washed up yet.

  Gordie Howe

  Kids, Hockey, Games

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• I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Death, Suicide, Dark

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

  Marilyn Manson

  Death, Suicide, Song

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• A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word I when you're in a group makes things complicated.

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo

  Sports, Player, Squad

  "The Brazilians are coming... to Wales and England" by Brian Homewood, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2000.

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• It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, Apology, People

  "President: 'I have repented'" by John King, www.cnn.com. September 11, 1998.

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• The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I’m tired.

  Susan Orlean

  Morning, Tired, Thinking

  "Perchance to Dream" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2010.

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