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games two lawyer
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant. Charles Dickens
games words-of-wisdom delight
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. Charles Dickens
games planning designer
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. Charles Stross
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts
games fire giving
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all. Alan Watts
games boards vendetta
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with. Al Alvarez
hard-times roots facts
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Charles Dickens
hard-times facts want
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life. Charles Dickens
hard-work easy-work problem
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. Alan Perlis
hard-work jealous thinking
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that. Alain Prost
hard-work acting joyful
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting. Al Pacino
hard-work actors today
I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it. Akshay Kumar
hard-work mind lasts
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. David McCullough
hard-work mean pursuit-of-happiness
When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness. David McCullough
hard-work thinking focus
Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work. David Krumholtz
impact world west
As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West. Chris Abani
impact dignity structure
The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure Chogyam Trungpa
impact people goal
Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals. Chip Conley
impact judging long
We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency. David Greenberg
impact people culture
Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it. David Guterson
impact long use
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. David Crystal
impact long atmosphere
We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble? David Suzuki
impact addiction environmental
If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts. David Suzuki
impact warning too-late
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. David Suzuki
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones." Charles Dickens
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..." Charles Dickens
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job. Charles Stross
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. Alan Watts
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals. Alan Rickman
lessons shapes pay
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. Al Jourgensen
lessons matter facts
No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it. Chris Colfer
lessons painful evolve
Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has. Cael Sanderson
less looking toward
We are looking less favorably toward 2016 bidding at this moment, Peter Ueberroth
less mean point push start sure year
We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season. Mike Scioscia
lessons used teach
I used to teach dance lessons. Eartha Kitt
lessons rewards hell
The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going. Bear Grylls
lessons-to-be-learned alive process
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. Denis Waitley
lessons firsts given
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject. Eliza Haywood
point woods
The point is, we're not out of the woods yet, Satya Pradhuman
point stop
The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it. Michael Vickers
point
The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early. Craig Martin
point
The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other. Father Thomas
point
The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs. Livan Hernandez
point reach
The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions. Jan Egeland
point succeeded
We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do. Jim Clarke
point thinks
We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point. Tom Renney
point state
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel. Michael Ondaatje