"The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more."

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Source : Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.19, Penguin

Felix Dennis

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“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I donâ€™t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”
“But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?”
“You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.”

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“People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.”
“Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.”

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“For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.”
“What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?”

Source : "A Clinton Report Card, So Far" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.
“No other method in this world is able to cure/rectify the demons that exist within human beings in this world - only nature and the animal kingdom, but you also have to bring through your participation and diligent application in facing the demons within.”

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