Majors Quotes - Page 19

• I know how you feel. I’ve been analyzed to death as well. Not, like, professionally, though I did date a psych major who said I had attention issues. Or at least that’s what I think he said. I wasn’t really paying attention. Anyway, where was I?

  Darynda Jones

  Psych, Thinking, Issues

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.107, Macmillan

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• You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

  Richelle Mead

  Feet, Waiting, Alchemist

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.74, Penguin

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• You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Positive, Simple

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 26, 2016

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• I believe there are and will be major opportunities to enhance Time Warner's value in future combinations.

  Carl Icahn

  Positive, Believe, Opportunity

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• If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspiring, Happiness, Happy

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• The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 27, 2015

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• Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2016

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• Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 28, 2015

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• China has really succeeded because of its stability.
  So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in a very fast changing economic situation.
  I think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth.
  If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.

  Bernard Arnault

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures.

  Paul Walker

  Business, Gestures, Way

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• Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insi

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Honesty, Freedom, People

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• It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Future, Civilization, Progress

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• Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s
  "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

  Ken Kesey

  Life, Love Is, Thinking

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• I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

  Slash

  Music, Mark, Left

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• If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.

  Walter Wink

  Country, Peace, Real

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• If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

  Tony Benn

  Queens, Advice, Crowns

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• If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

  James Whistler

  Science, Should Have, Gas

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• Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

  Michael Korda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.89, Pelican Publishing

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• Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

  John P. Kotter

  Change, Thinking, Organization

  John P. Kotter (2008). “The New Rules”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform

  Ryne Sandberg

  Games, League, Uniforms

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• I thought it would be my one and only exhibition so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

  Tracey Emin

  Would Be, Exhibitions, My One And Only

  "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

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• Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

  Bill Viola

  Wisdom, Mystical Experiences, Solitude

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• There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Stills, Plenty, Written

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