"Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth."

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Source : William E. Simon (1979). “Time for Truth”, Berkley

William E. Simon

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“If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.”
“If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.”
“Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.”
“I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasnâ€™t on its own and that it had to come out.”
“The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the mouth of somebody else that they don't know the weight or gravity or intensity that something they've made has brought out in somebody else's life. It's simultaneously flattering and humbling. It makes me so thankful that I've been so lucky to be able to do this work.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“You have to fall in love with hanging around words.”
“I used to pick Priuses out of the grill of my Hummer.”
“The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want you to think about that. We shouldn't be concerned about why He said something, or whether or not it can be made so. Just trust the Lord. We don't try to find the answers or explanations. We shouldn't try to spend time explaining what the Lord didn't see fit to explain. We spend useless time.”

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