Very Good Quotes - Page 9

• I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

  Eric Stoltz

  Years, Play, Piano

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• In every good man a God doth dwell.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Good Man

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• I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.

  John Fogerty

  Light, Long Ago, Ideas

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• Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

  Dalai Lama

  Laughing, Abandonment

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• Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!

  Steve Harvey

  Good Day, Delay, Growing

  FaceBook post by Steve Harvey from May 15, 2014

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• We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Country, Immigration, Borders

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• Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Thinking, Sheep, Black

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• By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

  Julia Cameron

  Artist, Chance, Willing

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.51, Souvenir Press

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• Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Quality, Excess

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.237, Harvard University Press

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• You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.

  Martin Routh

  Practice, Verify

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• A great chess player always has a very good memory.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Success, Memories, Player

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• A company is simply a group of people. And as a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, you have to be a great motivator, you have to be very good at praising and looking for the best in people. People are no different from flowers. If you water flowers, they flourish. If you praise people, they flourish. That's a critical attribute of a leader.

  Richard Branson

  Flower, People, Water

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• I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

  Liza Minnelli

  Song, Thinking, Singers

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

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• Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.

  Joyce Meyer

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• I think that is the difference between the very good and the best.

  Susan Polgar

  Thinking, Differences

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• Here is Max De Pree at his best, and that is very good indeed. In Leading Without Power, De Pree shows us why we cannot master the how-to-dos of effective leadership without also being clear about what leaders?and followers?must be. In doing so, he not only provides us with much practical wisdom about creative leading and organizational health, he also nurtures our souls. This is a book to be savored by all who care about such things as vision, faithfulness, trust, and hope.

  Richard J. Mouw

  Book, Creative, Leader

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• In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

  Harry Shearer

  Cutting, Years, Cameras

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• Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

  Christine Lahti

  Long, Competition, Healthy

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• I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

  Jean Reno

  Lying, Men, Giving

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• I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

  Nina Dobrev

  Nice, Often Is, People

  "Nina Dobrev Exclusive Interview" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mother, Father, Bird

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• To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Good Friend, Emotional, Feet

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• When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Health, Men, Goodness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Rip, Way

  Sir Winston Churchill (1950). “The Grand Alliance”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

  Michael Connelly

  Change, Memories, Book

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