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character
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
insightful patterns changed
I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed. David Sedaris
insightful quality pay
Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays. Louis C. K.
insightful use valuable
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?' Brian Tracy
insightful may harder
The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false. Charlie Munger
insightful riches frugality
Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality. Benjamin Franklin
insightful interviews encounters
Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter. David Duchovny
insightful victim series
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all. Kurt Vonnegut
insightful investing
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. John Maynard Keynes
insight
That doesn't give me any insight if it's just a run-of-the-mill 'here's my formula' recommendation letter. David Graves