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• If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.

  Stanley Ellin

  Writing, Gun, Choices

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• Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the ability to spot an opening, take a new idea, and see it through to profitable fruition.

  Tom Crabtree

  Writing, Technology, Ideas

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• The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph and stick them in the various spots that tempt you you will discover that they tend to swarm like minnows into sorts of crevices whose existence you hadn't realized and before you know it the whole long sentence becomes immobilized and lashed up squirming in commas. Better to use them sparingly, and with affection, precisely when the need for each one arises, nicely, by itself.

  Lewis Thomas

  Writing, Long, Important

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Cutting, Reality

  "Caitlyn Jenner, Kate Moss and Joey Essex: in the news for all the wrong reasons" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2015.

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• We knew we just had to win the heat to get in a good spot for the finals. We didn't want to push too hard for this morning to make sure we're not tired tonight. We want to be fresh for tonight because we know the other teams will be fresh.

  Samantha Cheverton

  Morning, Team, Tired

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• How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.

  Wallace Stegner

  Cutting, Years, Relaxation

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• The last thing we can afford right now is to make excuses. We're inexperienced at some spots, that's the way it is. We have injuries, so does everyone, that's the way it is.

  Dave Pietramala

  Lacrosse, Way, Lasts

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• Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.

  Wendy Oldfield

  Creativity, Ideas, Judging

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• You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to. You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her.

  Junot Diaz

  Relationship, Giving Up, Writing

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• We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

  Edward Bernays

  Leadership, Teacher, Issues

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised, cut off, and destroyed - but these do not destroy our religion, our national life, our spirituality. Every principle of religion is safe, and the sooner these black spots are purged away, the better the principles will shine, the more gloriously. Stick to them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cutting, Shining, Black

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1191, Manonmani Publishers

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• There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Yield, New Orleans, History

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.492

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• God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good--- and because it's from Him, even much better

  Janette Oke

  Inspirational, Trust, God

  Janette Oke (1999). “A Searching Heart”, p.233, Bethany House

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• A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Christian, Responsibility, Creator God

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• A conventional ‘success’ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I’d like to suggest an alternative ‘success’ story – one where, with each next, the protagonist is closer to finding that spot where he’s no longer held back by his heart, and he explodes with talent, and his character blossoms, and the gift he has to offer the world is apparent.

  Po Bronson

  Heart, Character, Alternatives

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• From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you — all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that you’ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Art, Block, Mean

  "Reflections From Paris and Beirut" by Samie Al-Achrafi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.

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• The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Rain, Dancing, Sound

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• Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

  Ann Brashares

  Writing, Character, Age

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 25, 2013

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• The winger resembles Mother Brown, running with a high knee-lift and sometimes not progressing far from the spot where he started.

  Simon Geoghegan

  Mother, Running, Progress

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• If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Christian, Baseball, Rome

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• Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

  Leonard Maltin

  Special, Affection, Cry

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• The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other, at first they're a bit shy, clumsy, staring at their shoes. But you can sense there's something there. So you cut and paste a little bit and by the end of the song you can spot them in the corner, holding hands.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Cutting, Artist

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• Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Important, Body

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• Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.

  Kofi Awoonor

  Strength, Sweet, Talent

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