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“In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." She told me that thoughts were things and that I would become the thing I thought of most. This kind of empowerment is crucial to creative thinking.”
Source : Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.141, Taylor Trade Publishing
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“Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he would sing for Bette Midler, he sang on "Fame," he sang for David Bowie, he sang for - whoever needed backgrounds, he would arrange the parts and hook your record up. He also sang on commercials. McDonald's, Budweiser.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”
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“By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.”
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“The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.”
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“I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.”
Source : "Louise Mensch: Chick-lit queen who shines at Westminster" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2011.
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“I was working with an extraordinarily successful company that was doing a CEO succession, and the board was discussing the threats to the business. They were enormous, despite the company's strong market position. I then realized that there were no longer just turn-around periods for companies in trouble, that now variables that could drastically effect any business's profitability were not going to go away.”
Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
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“Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.”