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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Life
Success
Failure
People
Gave
Failures
How
Were
Up
Close
Did
Realize
Who
Many
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash
Moving On
Time
Failure
You
Try
Space
Mistakes
Build
Past
Energy
Stepping
Stepping Stone
Close
Forget
Stone
Any
Dwell
Door
Use
Your
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir
Environmental
Nature
Heart
Spend
Once
Spirit
Clean
Week
Clear
Climb
Close
Mountain
Woods
Break
Your
Wash
Keep
Away
Awhile
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
Fear
Mind
Mouth
Nothing
All Americans
Wrong
Peril
Forced
His
Close
American
Done
Then
Who
Even
Shut
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. Maxwell
Ahead
Enough
Relate
Others
Must
Leaders
Motivate
Close
Them
Far
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You
Memories
Eyes
Reality
Close
Your
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
James Cash Penney
Strength
Organization
Independent
Fingers
Fist
Close
Five
Them
Separate
Units
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas Sowell
Life
Government
Valuable
Politicians
Pretense
General
Never
Fair
Make
Inexhaustible
Been
Expand
Close
Want
Who
Even
Asset
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut
You
Edge
Out
Kinds
See
Over
Without
Close
Going
Want
Center
Stand
Things
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin
Time
You
People
Job
Somewhere
Fire
Enough
Those
Some
Someone
Over
Know
Said
Proves
Existence
Very
Close
Get
Done
Just
Want
Themselves
Set
A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
Yehuda Berg
Humanity
Feeling
Community
Everyone
Our
Responsible
Web
About
Someone
Network
Crucial
Part
True
Ultimate
Close
Role
Same
Just
Being
Happens
Social
Connected
Plays
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu
Life
Work
Wisdom
Family
You
Conflict
Simple
Try
Control
Live
Enjoy
Thinking
Generous
Fair
Governing
Close
Family Life
Dwelling
Ground
Keep
Present
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
Politics
First
Bears
Come
Supposed
Very
Close
Realize
Resemblance
Profession
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?
Shah Rukh Khan
Life
Time
Family
You
People
Circle
Be True
Few
Think
Otherwise
Everything
Only
Point
True
Feel
Come
Make
Am
Lots
Friends
Very
Close
After
Them
Across
Your
Fortunate
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
Anne Lamott
Eyes
Try
Spring
Pay
Pay Attention
Trees
Attention
Look
Around
Am
Up
Close
Going
Listen
Hectic
Flowers
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Sylvia Plath
Nothing
Everything
Dangerously
Ourselves
Find
Perhaps
Because
Close
Wanting
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer
Loneliness
Communicate
Someone
More
Never
Cruel
Felt
Close
Than
Who
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
Twyla Tharp
Creativity
Problem
World
Parents
Looking
Way
Solve
See
One-Way
More
New
Sale
Close
Than
Trying
New Way
Just
Artists
Children
Want
Engineers
Who
Businesspeople
Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.
Claire Forlani
Depression
Me
Suicide
Been
Close
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain
Saying
Freedom
You
Suffering
World
Punk
Pain
Musical
Definition
Nirvana
Punk Rock
Pretty
Webster
Freedom From
Terms
Rock
Doing
Close
Want
Means
Playing
External
External World
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso
You
Eyes
Draw
Must
Sing
Close
Your
I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.
Anthony Bourdain
Food
Seen
Country
Nation
Other
Earth
Evidence
Slightest
About
Having
Come
Remotely
Perhaps
Most
Misunderstood
Cuisine
Mexican
Mexico
Close
Than
Any
Reproducing
Clue
Even
Zero
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell
Wisdom
Ego
Having
Falls
Close
Goes
Your
Avoid
Position
I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.
Cesar Millan
Welcome
Learning
Mind
Possibilities
Never
Open
New
Ideas
Learn
Always
New Ideas
Close
Going
Choices
Eager
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Sunshine
Walk
Our
Shade
Shadow
Cross
Instant
Like
Leaving
False
Friends
Close
While
Us
Keeping
That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.
Jon Hurwitz
You
People
School
Past
Relationships
Those
High
Seeing
High School
Reunion
Were
Years
Years Ago
Close
Going
Who
Fun
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