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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Elbert Hubbard

Art, Business, Science

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
Mike Tyson

Emotional, Care, Bad

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard

Time, Attitude, Character

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
W. Clement Stone

Life, Success, Best

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump

Good, Best, Experience

Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs

Change, Important

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Mean, Keep

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard Shaw

Two, Hell, Between

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn

Food, Mind, Words

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix

Good, Wish, Old

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard Shaw

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard

Great, Strength, Decide

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood

Change, Sometimes, Hands

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell

Waiting, Grow, Full

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
Charlie Sheen

Funny, Sleep, Focus

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
Steve Jobs

Life, Medical, Parents

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt

Work, End, Remember

Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn

Good, End, Whatever

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato

Single, Moment, Else

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Steve Jobs

Time, Technology, Sorry

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert Hubbard

Everything, Cannot, Learn

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato

Angry, Help, Person

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.
Jimi Hendrix

Forget, Die, Loving

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato

Yourself, Greatest, Victory

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West

Love, Poverty, Except

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Best, Calm, Pursuit

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

Writing, May, Enough

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
Vince Lombardi

Game, Football, Two

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx

Results, Useful, Useless

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