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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.
dealing might serving stop
We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.
deal dime increase nickel offer recognizes table three wage
We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.
deal might ready supposed systems understand whatever
We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.
dealing hierarchy might military properly
We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.
deal opportunity positives sanctions ten tournament understanding
The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.
deal egyptian palate pleasures strangle whom
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
deal earn employees exemplary great hard hard-work honor proud represents salute share team work
We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.
deal later super
We started the deal and here they are 30-years later in the Super Bowl.
deals people valuable
There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.
expected further guards played positive since team
The positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.
expected
We're in a win-win situation. If we lose, we've still done more than we expected in our first year. Paul James
expected factory gates generation happier hated left life occurred walked work
Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65. Mark Barrowcliffe
expected good program strong
Wayland has a strong program so I expected this to be a good game.
expected koreans olympics skating time
When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. Kim Yuna
expected fallen great growth number sales taxes
We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.
expected hard paid people team tried
We're a young team and not too many people expected much out of us. We tried to go out there and play hard every day and it paid off.
expected poverty recession three trouble
Three years after a recession we're still having trouble getting into a recovery. I would have expected poverty to go down.
expected
We know what's expected of us, and we know what we need to do. We don't want to end up like two years ago.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Dickens
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
helps jobs maintain position serve students
We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.
helps improves involved life los love
I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children. Lisa Vidal
helps somebody talk useful
We find it very interesting and useful to talk to somebody with firsthand experience. Obviously, it helps our thinking. Richard Boucher
helps quick spinning
I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much. Rory Bremner
helps hope next positive week
Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games. Fernando Torres
helps inside outside ready rested
Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.
helps needs rule
I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would. Thomas Mars
helps positive protect
Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests. Tom Rath
helps improving lift scene signs spirits stock
Signs that the U.S. stock scene is improving really helps lift spirits at home.
life strong truth
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
life saying-goodbye expectations
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
life autism world
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
life moral existence
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
life littles
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
life people astonishing
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
life soul prison
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
life happiness dark
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
life distance journey
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
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. Charles Stross
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.
partner
When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh. Lauren Miller
partners can-do
You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner. Arianna Huffington
partnership institutions unesco
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. Arthur Henderson
partners theory should
Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on. Brian Greene
partners
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most. Eleanora Duse
partners ultimate understand
You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going. Tony Fadell
partners provide solved
We've been working with our partners for years to provide them insight. Have we solved this problem? No, but we're getting closer.
partner run somebody wants
I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate. Jim McKelvey
partner step strongly waiting
I feel very strongly that we've done our share. Frankly, we're still waiting for our partner to step up.
past political reform
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.
past men miracle
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."
past self years
Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last. Charles Studd
past done lasts
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.
past years tvs
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).
past years judging
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
past giving video
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune. Alanis Morissette
past puppets driven
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. Alan Watts
prisoners
For us what is significant is the way in which the prisoners are treated.
prisoners unless war
I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. Gore Vidal
relationship believe two
I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.
relationship honesty wife
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife. Alan Arkin
relationship leadership responsibility
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them. Akio Morita
relationship sex passion
Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan. David Sedaris
relationship girl realizing
I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it? David Thewlis
relationship sex opposites
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it. Cary Grant
relationship
Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French. Lance Armstrong
relationship voice scare
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too. Aimee Carter
relationship needs given
You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you. Billy Joel
running men roots
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
running vices common
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
running moving views
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.
running men hands
Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.
running eye two
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
running pain boys
I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.
running church-bells religion
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.
running europe usa
My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.
running wall real
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
situation tough
We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of. Gary Williams
situation time
We're in a situation where time is of the essence, Herman Edwards
situation strong
We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.
situation our-lives
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives. Deborah Norville
situation
Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK. Beth Moore
situation turn
We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.
situation findings happens
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens. Brian Eno
situation
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
situation step
This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.
took
We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.
took
Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there. Lindsey Vonn
took worked
When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.
took
Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this. Eric Norris
took
When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.
took
I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild. Trinny Woodall
took
Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live. James E. Faust
took
She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.
took tour
Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work-out effort feels
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do. Dave Chappelle
work-out levels mail
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.