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EDWARD F. HALIFAX He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
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CYRUS CURTIS First share who you are, then share what you do.
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DO WON CHANG An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
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SAM KILLERMANN People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
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GARY F EVANS... Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else coul...
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CYRUS H. CURTIS there's nothing else to do.
AUSTIN SMITH Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
HILAIRE BELLOC Let's do everything that we can, and let the good Lord do everything else that we can't.
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DANIEL BARENBOIM Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to come ba...
WALTER E. DISNEY Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start busines...
KEVIN J. DONALDSON It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lor...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
HALIFAX Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those...
ANNA GODBERSEN Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II There was nothing else I could do.
TREVOR ARIZA Few people truly understand the difference between faith and belief. Few people understand that mira...
CHRISTOPHER W. FORTNEY But he has nothing else to prove in college football. And I know he is going to do well up there.
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MEISTER ECKHART Don't believe eyes, cheats you later, its not true, believe your knowledge its develops you.
ZENITHANAND If You not Do today, otherwise you will die tomorrow its fact
ZENITHANAND If I am going to do something, I want to do it so people say, "WOW".
LORRIN L. LEE Do it if it must be done.
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CAMILLE SWEENEY Find out what you truly love to do and do more of it.
LORRIN L. LEE "What you don't do may be more important than what you do.
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BILLY MAYS The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a...
STEVE BALLMER I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of t...
HOWARD DEAN You don't do business with an institution. You do business with people.
DEBBIE FIELDS What you don't do well on time will consume more of your time later. What you don't do on time, how ...
MARIANA FULGER To do BIG things, you must be willing to do the little things well.
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GERMANY KENT It's snowing out. There's nothing really else to do.
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TAMORA PIERCE The people who recover actually do pretty well in life,
WALTER KAYE Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
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BILL NYE I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.
ERIC DANE I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.
ANDY WARHOL Concentrate on what you do well, and do it better than anybody else.
JOHN SCHNATTER I can do nothing without His help. Oh, Lord, what ignorance thinking everything was wealth.
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DWAYNE JARRETT People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
JOE GIBBS People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who...
BERNARD PIVOT People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
JEREMY COLLIER What right does the governor have to say who I do business with and who I don?t do business with?
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BIBLE People do business with people they like.
MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN Do the thing and you will have the power.
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GARY F EVANS... Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
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LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
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