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“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.”
Source : Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.19, Penguin
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“The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.”
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“After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.”
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“I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.”
Source : "Angie Everhart...she's on fire". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
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“What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.”
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“If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.”
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“Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.”
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“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion. In this respect believers understand unbelievers, skeptics, and atheists better than they understand themselves. Unlike unbelievers, they regard the impossibility of faith as necessary, not accidental ...”
Source : "A Karl Barth Reader".