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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
Daniel H. Pink
Service
Truth
Good
You
Happy
Yourself
People
Power
Too
Tell
Find
Leaders
Make
Hear
Close
Trying
Often
Just
Being
Want
Being Honest
Them
Straightforward
Really
Honest
You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.
Danny Elfman
You
Year
Rip-Off
Allowed
Another
Opinion
How
Score
Close
Closely
Just
In My Opinion
Happened
Ridiculous
Earlier
Two
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
David Attenborough
Eyes
World
Bird
Birds
Wild
Everyone
Our
Ears
More
Likes
Accessible
Close
Us
Creature
Universal
We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
David R. Brower
Abyss
Edge
Lost
Close
Being
Irrevocably
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
Edward Bellamy
Life
First
Recreation
Close
Bread
Second
Necessity
We need to digitize gun-sales records, mandate universal background checks, close gun-show loopholes and straw-man purchases, ban high-capacity magazines, and push for a comprehensive assault weapons ban with an extensive buyback system.
Emma Gonzalez
Background
System
Purchases
Weapons
Magazines
Comprehensive
Records
Push
Checks
Loopholes
Ban
Close
Mandate
Assault
Extensive
Universal
Need
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
Fran Drescher
Home
Character
Me
Gone
Very
Close
Far
Far Away
Away
Keeps
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Open
Because
Hand
Close
Loves
Hardest
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
Out
Giver
Open
Hand
Close
Modest
Keep
Hardest
I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Positive
Day
Prayer
Meditation
Inventory
Through
Throughout
Blocks
Begin
Close
Move
Intentions
Use
Each
Each Day
Evening
Growth
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot
World
Vision
Will
Our
Out
See
Only
Troublesome
Self
Know
Glory
Leave
Very
Close
Blot
Tiny
Which
Speck
Margin
I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.
Ginni Rometty
Life
You
Eyes
My Life
Sit
Think
Took
Everything
Say
Risk
Know
Most
Learn
Learned
Always
Close
Did
Them
Here
Career
If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.
Hillary Clinton
Work
Family
You
Trust
Somebody
Practice
Starts
Members
Out
Some
Nobody
Importance
Learn
Comfortable
Practicing
How
Overstate
Friends
Close
Close Friends
Get
Family Members
Cannot
Public
Speaking
Evaluate
Help
Public Speaking
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
Hunter S. Thompson
Generation
Rest
Ali
Saw
See
Entirely
Lifetime
He
Between
Likely
Always
Came
Close
Anybody
Difference
Doomed
Us
Muhammad
Muhammad Ali
Conquer
I see my task as serving the majority of people. The question is, how do you find out what they want, how best to serve them? My answer is to stay close to ordinary people because, at heart, I am one of them.
Ingvar Kamprad
Best
You
Heart
People
Out
Find
Stay
See
Majority
Because
Answer
How
Am
Question
Close
Task
Want
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Them
Serve
Serving
When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.
Jeffery Deaver
Time
Eyes
Book
Picture
Type
Out
About
Touch
Scene
Write
Lights
Go
Yes
Itself
Close
Then
Shut
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.
Jermain Defoe
You
Speak
Sometimes
Argument
Important
Right Things
Someone
Friends
Close
Want
Them
Your
Keep
Right
Things
No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.
Jim Nabors
Life
Man
Later
Find
Some
More
He
Handful
Friends
Close
Close Friends
Than
May
Them
Early
I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet.
John Dingell
Long
Mouth
Changing
Out
Seems
Only
Purposes
Take
Foot
He
Feet
His
Very
Close
Pitt
Now
Served
Suggesting
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
John Ortberg
Life
Me
Heart
Experience
Mind
Glorious
Summit
Possibilities
Life Experience
Beating
Over
Very
Close
Racing
Fast
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
Judith Butler
Failure
Rights
Power
International Relations
Relations
Markets
Ways
Obama
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Pursued
Instance
New
Opening
Democratic
Another
Always
Proved
Continue
His
Link
Close
Where
Rhetoric
Which
Fortify
Useful
International
Guantanamo
I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
Karl Pilkington
You
Game
Thought
Believe
Other
State
Sides
Top
Giant
Out
See
Had
Pyramids
Like
Massive
Rendered
Balanced
Got
How
Hand
Up
Close
Get
Just
Flat
Really
Each
Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that's close to your heart. And I think that that's very important, well, to be successful and to be happy.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
You
Be Happy
Heart
Happy
Passion
Important
Think
Rule
Must
Follow
Something
Fact
Well
Very
Close
The Golden Rule
Golden
Golden Rule
Successful
Your
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
Lauren Bacall
You
Man
Matter
Healthy
Stay
Outsider
He
Territory
How
How Much
Private
His
Close
Loves
Much
Illness
My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Life
Time
Me
You
Theatre
Responsibility
Think
Playwright
Give
Only
Facts
Most
Sticking
Hamilton
Close
Just
Happen
Happened
Story
Interesting
Storyteller
Interesting Things
Your
Show
Helps
Things
We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.
Linda McCartney
Together
Long
Lasted
Other
Must
Something
Close
Going
Each
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