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#1

“Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#2

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

tags: on-writing, words, writing

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#3

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.”
― Burt Bacharach

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#4

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

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#5

“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

tags: coffee, tea

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#6

“Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living.”
― Nicholas Negroponte

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#7

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
― Erich Fromm

tags: creativity

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#8

“Poetry is life distilled.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

tags: poetry

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#9

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
― Pat Monahan

tags: humor, immature, young

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#10

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

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#11

“You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
― Warren Buffett

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#12

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

tags: desk, viewpoint

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#13

“There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.”
― Jeph Jacques

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#14

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
― André Gide

tags: adventure, courage, journey

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#15

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#16

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

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#17

“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#18

“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
― Brooks Atkinson

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#19

“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
― Victoria Holt

tags: experience, never-regret

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#20

“Never confuse Motion with Action.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

tags: action

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#21

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
― John Maxwell

tags: leadership

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#22

“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”
― Robert Harris, Pompeii

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#23

“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

tags: invulnerability, leadership, teamwork, trust

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#24

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
― Ralph Nader

tags: followers, leaders, leadership

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#25

“A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: good-leader, leader, leaders, people

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#26

“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

tags: duty-proceed-ability-limit-exist

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#27

“To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.”
― John Maxwell

tags: compete, team

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#28

“[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.”
― Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

tags: organization

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#29

“If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?”
― Matthew Woodring Stover

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#30

“It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

tags: opinions, teamwork

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