Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.


Denis Diderot

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DENIS WAITLEY
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
DENIS HEALEY
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view f...
DENIS WAITLEY
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously con...
DENIS WATLEY
We're underscoring to everybody the promise at the heart of the Affordable Care Act, which is qu...
DENIS MCDONOUGH
The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to...
DENIS VILLENEUVE
Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
DENIS VILLENEUVE
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary d...
DENIS WAITLEY
I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy...
DENIS LEARY
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the fine...
DENIS WAITLEY
It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of i...
DENIS NORDEN
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholi...
DENIS MCDONOUGH
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, a...
DENIS WAITLEY
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand,...
DENIS WAITLEY
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving...
DENIS WAITLEY
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and...
DENIS WAITLEY
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
DENIS WAITLEY
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time o...
DENIS WAITLEY
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
DENIS WAITLEY