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• If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Expectations, Unhappiness, Ifs

  "Depending on God" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2011.

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• The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

  Jaime Lerner

  Believe, Taken, Cities

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• The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Strong, Attitude, Keys

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• If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Magic, Stories

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• If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Talking, Ideas, Long

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Ambition, Judgement, Energy

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• Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  War, Rights, Groups

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• My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Cooking, Cuisine, Asian

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• I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

  Rebecca Hall

  Stupid, Book, Cooking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Running, Order, People

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• We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

  Brad Bird

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Book, Release, Tension

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• What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

  Robert Greene

  Effort, Romance, Leaving

  Robert Greene (2010). “The Art Of Seduction”, p.22, Profile Books

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• Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

  Tim Ferriss

  Matter, Cooks, Models

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• In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.

  Ellie Krieger

  Philosophy, Food, Joy

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• When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

  Peg Bracken

  Sound, Devotion, Proof

  "I Didn't Come Here to Argue (My Feud With Food)". Book by Peg Bracken (p. 22), 1969.

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• I bought an organic rice milk. Frozen.....I'm not going to make something I don't know how to make, I don't have a recipe for.

  Art Smith

  Frozen, Milk, Know How

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• If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand...more.

  Karla Kuskin

  Memories, Imagination, Feelings

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• I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I'll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we're going to have tragedies as a result of that. I'm telling you right up front.

  Garry McCarthy

  Gun, Fire, Hands

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• As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?

  Lukas Foss

  Pieces, Paper, Down And

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• The recipe for success . . . customers will get what they want, when they want it . . . you will see more revenue, greater brand loyalty, real relationships, and a competitive edge.

  Martin Zwilling

  Loyalty, Real, Want

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• A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Labor Day, Secret

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

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• The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

  Leon Gambetta

  Success, Recipe For Success

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• I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Turkeys, Myrtle

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Self, Feminist, Movement

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