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«If people are coming to work excited...if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly...if they're having fun...if they're concentrating on doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings...then somewhere you have a leader.»
«All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.»
Author: Sidney Lumet | About: Work | Keywords: accident, preparing
«Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character»
«By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.»
«I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.»
«GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.»
«A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.»
«By preparing a garland for a Deity with one's own hand; by grinding sandal paste for the Lord with one's own hand; and by writing sacred texts with one's own hand -- one becomes blessed with opulence equal to that of Indra.»
«Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.»
«A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up»

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