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adapted book call chinese help legend magic named picture plato prodigy
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister. Nick Flynn
adapt brain given heart history maybe organize passing planet screwing start
The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet. Guy Laliberte
adapted chinese design interior
Volvo has one weakness, and that is in the interior design. They have not adapted to the Chinese people's perception of luxury when it comes to the interior design, and this has to be addressed. Li Shufu
adapted add adding apartment architecture built country deal developing easily estate great industry information local microsoft needs seeing services ship software specific sure using web
What we're seeing is a great deal of customization on country and industry levels. When Microsoft was developing its CRM, it made sure that it was built on a Web services architecture so that it can be easily adapted to specific local needs and requirements. We don't ship an out-of-the-box, property-management application, for instance, but those in real estate using the software can easily add apartment information without adding programming code.
adapt chance child conditions create emergence giving help human infected virus
When we have a child infected we are giving the virus more chance to adapt to human beings, and giving it this chance could help create conditions for the emergence of a new virus.
adapt special
Unfortunately in the past, if you had a special need, you had to adapt to the machine.
adapt conference continue create dynamic elephant essential framework global governance increasing interest issues lead learn next noticed pink tackle ten top understand year
Year over year, we have noticed an increasing interest from global organizations that not only want to learn ITIL theory, but also want to understand how they can adapt the framework to tackle top IT issues such as governance and security, ... Over the next ten years, Pink Elephant will continue to lead the way and create dynamic programming at the Conference that equips IT professionals with the most essential and up-to-date information.
adaptation continue costs helped higher industry insofar labor moving point stubborn
Ultimately, industry adaptation is helped by higher crude, insofar as fares will continue moving higher, labor costs lower, and at some point even the most stubborn (airlines) may see the need to decelerate.
adaptive biological bottom fails line permit plan provide standards
The plan fails to provide bottom line standards for biological goals, adaptive management, monitoring, and permit duration.
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
dancing bows looks
When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom. Alan Rickman
dancing forever events
Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing. Alan Moore
dangerous
Life has to be dangerous. Alain Robert
dance long body
James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably. Al Sharpton
dancer trying modest
All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer. Al Pacino
dance mother president
Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president. Chita Rivera
dance girl dancing
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance. Chinua Achebe
dance beats
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
dancing want world
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
early lots market options people uniquely watch work
Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you. Lisa Gansky
early pleased signals
We are pleased with the early signals this year,
early fourth freshmen quarter
We started subbing and early in the fourth quarter we had some freshmen on the field.
early easy good job maintain playing road start tough
We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.
early executing good half looks missed open second shots
We started out well, executing and getting open shots in rhythm. They crawled back into it right at the end of the first half, and in the second half we got some good looks early but missed them.
early guys identify season struggled team trying
We struggled early on with our team trying to identify their roles. That is what the early season and midseason tournaments are for. The guys have done that.
early five hopefully key looking middle peak reason row time valley win
We are looking to make it five in a row after this match. The key is to peak at the right time and to hopefully peak in the early to middle of April. There is no reason why we can't win the Valley this year.
early held rest struggled
We struggled early but otherwise, we held our own the rest of the way. Curtis Brown
early fixing turkeys
We started fixing the place up, probably in October. We put our first turkeys on the place in early December.
formula helps mind playing time
I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1. Heikki Kovalainen
formulate laboratory meeting plan results test
We're meeting to go over laboratory test results and formulate a plan for what we're going to do about this.
formulate individual plans pull
We're going to formulate individual plans for every player. We'll pull back when a player's fatigued.
formula moment sure
Let's put it this way: I am not even sure at the moment we will be in Formula One in 2008. Flavio Briatore
formula note
There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you. Enya
formula lifetime loss player players replicate three whether
What we have to try to do is find a way to replicate that. Whether that's through one player, two players or even three players, we have to try to find a formula for making up for a loss of a player who is a once in a lifetime player. Stephen Fleming
formula nobel
There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.
formula future openly save trade turkey
Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey. Ali Babacan
formula second third three
If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari. Gilles Villeneuve
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
passing pressure run second tried
We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.
passing stopped trying
We stopped pressing them and started trying to get into the passing lanes. Brandan Wright
passing-away today world
Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world. Diana Gabaldon
passing-on cojones worthwhile
I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it. Carol Leifer
passing-on two justice
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. William Shakespeare
passing-on long lines
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself. Diane Wakoski
passing-away deeds literature
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
passing top tried
We tried passing over the top and that didn't work; we just got killed inside. We couldn't make up for that size.
passing shooting work
We really have to work on our passing and shooting and get better by Friday. Rachel Brown
quickly slowly watch
Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do. John Steinbeck
quickly situations thinks
She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.
quickly
You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow. Sunil Mittal
quickly saw
I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous. Armando Iannucci
quickly surprised
I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,
quickly research risks
But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.
quickly
The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.
quickly
He cantered quickly and was just very quick.
quickly ready
We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March. Mike Shanahan
racing action like-you
The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing. Denny Hamlin
racing dirt-bikes firsts
Second place is the first loser. Dennis Anderson
racing industry right-now
The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod. Chad Knaus
racing glucose
I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing. Charlie Kimball
racing good-man etc
Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits. Charlie Munger
racing gone skis
From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction. Bode Miller
racing danger skis
It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.
racing motorcycle bikers
You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! Dan Aykroyd
racing driving make-me-happy
Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy. Ayrton Senna
shown
We want them and I think we have shown you that.
shown year
We're not a one-trick pony. We've shown it all year that we're not a one-trick pony. Ken Hitchcock
shown
We're better than that, and we've shown it.
shown
shown you no hair, no fibers, no eyewitnesses. Not one.
shown
We've shown what we can do with settlements.
shown
She's shown us things we didn't know about.
shown visited
I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality. Stephen Hawking
shown
He just didn't show up and he still hasn't shown up.
shown team
I think we've shown that we're a team that can compete.
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.