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People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
The car emitted on last gasp and rolled to a stop, in the middle of the Altlantic Ocean. "We're here," Leven tried to joke.
And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.
Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
The Bible, and the peace that comes about through a continuous relationship with God are the best ways of knowing His will.
I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.
From my standpoint, I feel like I'm at the start of my career, I'm only 23-years-old but I have been doing it for 10 years.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.
If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.
If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly
The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.
Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.
In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.
The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.
To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.
I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.
When you're motivated by external rewards, it's often because you're trying to accomplish goals you didn't create yourself.
So ... will you stay with me until it's over? Please?" "Kaylee, I would do anything for the girl who granted my dying wish.
When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.
Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.
We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.
It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
Don't we all have moments we'd rather forget, and thoughts we wished never came to us? We say things too awful to remember.