Oliver Burkeman
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO SUNDAY ADELAJA SUN TZU The final option to have your book completed is to hire a ghost writer. The challenge with this opti... KYTKA HILMAR-JEZEK A secret to your progress will be a strong belief in your own abilities. People will try to hold you... TROY GATHERS Life is movement, stay alive. Flexibility exercises that develop your full range of movement will he... ADRIAN CROOK SUNDAY ADELAJA Life is something that should not be looked upon with regrets and as a load to carry on your shoulde... GARY F EVANS... MOHAMED ELBARADEI The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER TERRY GOODKIND JACQUELINE BISSET GERMANY KENT God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond. JOHNNIE DENT JR. SUNDAY ADELAJA NORMAN VINCENT PEALE NORMAN VINCENT PEALE NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengea... BIBLE JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. 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LEE You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tel... ELIZABETH WARREN People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass. PINO CARUSO The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev... UMBERTO ECO One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life's journey.... SETH ADAM SMITH We carry out our lives assuming ourselves to be something substantial and unchanging, and we become ... TAGAWA SHUN'EI Life is only a disappointment when you allow the negative things keep you in self-pity. The more you... LAURA E. BRUSSEAU Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see thingsE.J. PATTEN NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE If you offer a very high quality education, it's much less threatening than a lot of the other Jewis... 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Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, wi... OLIVER BURKEMAN Sometimes the most valuable of all talents is to be able not to seek resolution; to notice the cravi... OLIVER BURKEMAN Ultimately, what defines the ‘cult of optimism’ and the culture of positive thinking – even in... OLIVER BURKEMAN The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning,’ argued the social psychologist Erich Fromm... OLIVER BURKEMAN Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us ju... OLIVER BURKEMAN Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t s... OLIVER BURKEMAN And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For t... OLIVER BURKEMAN For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that w... OLIVER BURKEMAN I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better... OLIVER I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to... OLIVER I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ... OLIVER I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact... OLIVER My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people... OLIVER I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T... OLIVER JOHN OLIVER JAMIE OLIVER If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -... 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OLIVER PLATT The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity... OLIVER PLATT People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't ha... OLIVER PLATT OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the lev... OLIVER KAHN This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics. OLIVER KAHN When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest. OLIVER KAHN If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best. OLIVER KAHN There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most im... OLIVER KAHN We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island. OLIVER KAHN Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs. OLIVER KAHN I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are prob... OLIVER KAHN If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen. OLIVER KAHN I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad. OLIVER HUDSON My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It... OLIVER HUDSON You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someo... OLIVER HUDSON Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life. OLIVER HUDSON Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy. OLIVER HUDSON His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop yo... OLIVER HUDSON We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids. OLIVER HUDSON I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was ... OLIVER HUDSON Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything. OLIVER HUDSON Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things. OLIVER HUDSON Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose ... OLIVER HUDSON OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD That's another fine mess you've gotten me into. OLIVER HARDY We never see ourselves as others see us. OLIVER HARDY OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it. OLIVER EVANS It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and inv... OLIVER EVANS OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER HERFORD JOHN OLIVER JAMIE OLIVER OLIVER TAMBO German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everyt... OLIVER MARKUS If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ... OLIVER SACKS JOHN OLIVER JOHN OLIVER In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us... BARRET OLIVER Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which... BARRET OLIVER I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from not... BARRET OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER BARNEY OLIVER OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER TAMBO JOHN OLIVER OLIVER HERFORD If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a ... VIC OLIVER OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER HERFORD OLIVER NORTH MARY OLIVER OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER CROMWELL OLIVER CROMWELL This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. 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All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good eno... 
May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunli... 
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts ma... 
When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong
that you know you ... 
Dare to follow your own paths.
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are str... 
Every person has a purpose in life to develop a lifestyle that will make them salt and light on eart... 
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on th... 
If you disdain the seconds of your life and refuse to develop a keen sense of appreciation for them ... 
Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their... 
If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will... 
I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality, and energy and intere... 
As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example. 
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this pic... 
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this pi... 
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this pic... 
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, w... 
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat yo... 
Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do ha... 
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward y... 
There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, someth... 
When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of reque... 
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your l... 
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your l... 
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your l... 
Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means wh... 
If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you thin... 
If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things ab... 
As you seek to know the will of our Heavenly Father in your life and become more spiritual, you will... 
If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you w... 
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose between giving up and staying strong, when s... 
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose between giving up and staying strong, when s... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day... 
To live is to write a story. If you are a strong person, your life story will mostly be written by y... 
Life values will become a reference point for you that will lead you to your destiny and goal 
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He... 
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed ... 
Sometimes people appear in your life unexpectedly like a gift from the Universe. You didn’t even k... 
Sometimes people appear in your life unexpectedly like a gift from the Universe. You didn’t even k... 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o... 
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeli... 
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. 
I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo... 
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. 
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w... 
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th... 
If the money's right, I'll do a film. 
I'm really a pacifist. 
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fi... 
I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that w... 
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of th... 
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, bu... 
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you... 
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. 
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stout... 
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. 
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather t... 
Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry. 
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact. 
My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday... 
How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is i... 
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never ... 
The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody'... 
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again... 