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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.
alone control hour parents power television total
We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home. Jack Valenti
alone ancient beggars best develop general luxury main people subjects system trying
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught. Michel Onfray
alone amazing hear players spoke
It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone. Morgan Wootten
alone behind capture family feeling kentucky realized
The powering thing behind the movie was to capture the feeling of being alone and going back to Kentucky and getting walloped by a sense of family I hadn't realized was so much in place, Cameron Crowe
alone broad employer health implement investment plans pleased program received recognized support
We are pleased to have received such broad support from the employer community. No one payer can implement this program alone and not only employers, but health plans have recognized that this is an important investment to make. David Lord
alone men needs slot women
We're in the 9 o'clock slot now. Men and women alone on the island, they have needs. Needs that must be fulfilled. Naveen Andrews
alone answer biologist branches conference data learned origins questions relates science
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. Neil deGrasse Tyson
alone countries dire health million needs report situation terms
The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors. Margaret Chan
alone appreciate everybody handle inmates outfit project
We appreciate the help, from the (county jail) inmates and from everybody involved. One outfit alone would not be able to handle a project like this.
cannot conflicts parliament solved strengthen
We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens. Jaroslaw Kaczynski
cannot democracy island regime send signal strong surrounded
We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region.
cannot cause continue including received spur ted work
Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work. Louis Bacon
cannot dream
You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.
cannot empty fathom good players souls stories tried whatever work
Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.
cannot choices choose deeply inspirational life today until
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.
cannot choice choices choose deeply otherwise today until
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise
cannot clearer congress count domestic help house looking remedy totally white
We are looking to Congress, ... It is clearer than ever that America's domestic manufacturers cannot count on any help from the White House to remedy this totally unacceptable situation.
cannot ensure forget happened remember side
We are at their side as they suffer. One cannot forget what happened and one must remember to ensure it does not happen again.
children pride men
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing. Charles Dickens
children father heart
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
children grieving two
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
children father past
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise. Charles Caleb Colton
children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
educational keys doors
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
education teaching brain
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
education book men
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
education mind armor
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
education teaching knowledge
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
education prayer men
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. Charles Stanley
educational clothes giving
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life. Alan Watts
education learning buddhism
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
education country government
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton
emerge enable freedom partner thailand
We want to see Thailand emerge as a bastion of freedom and democracy, not as a ... partner with the Burmese dictatorship. Friends don't let friends enable dictatorship.
emergencies seats
Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat. David Mitchell
emergencies sometimes sometimes-in-life
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency Bryce Courtenay
emerged however points seek sticking
We still want to try to seek consensus, however two sticking points have emerged for us.
emergencies roles states
The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency. Bob Buckhorn
emerged giving great guy riding second
What he did great after that first inning was get the first and second guy out before giving up that hit. He's really emerged as the ace, and we're going to keep riding him.
emergency felt manage people situation species
We felt it was very important to let people know there are more manatees now than there were 25 years ago. So we're not in any emergency situation; we are in a situation where we have to manage the species carefully.
emergency explain main open priority
We explain that our No. 1 priority is to open up main thoroughfares for emergency vehicles.
emergency plane
The plane did not crash. It did not fall. The plane made an emergency landing.
existence indicate sign
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. Lucy Lawless
exist fight hopes people potholes represent run
The potholes represent the hopes and aspirations of our people, and the little people have needs, ... I fight with the bureaucrats every day, because they have to be told they are not the people who run the government, and they exist for the people. Alfonse D'Amato
exists tonal tone within
When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. Nina Jacobson
exists girls heard jackie met though
I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.
existing korea north provide
We're not going to provide any quid pro quos for North Korea to live up to its existing obligations. Richard Boucher
existence enjoyed
While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed! Charlotte Bronte
existing focus found operations perhaps shift trades work
We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.
exist products saying studies
We're just saying that those studies don't exist that these products work.
exist given hepburn kinds movies opportunity russell step time
If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more. Kari Matchett
five member
We are a five member board...we had no discussion,
five pennant race runs
We're in a pennant race here, ... We're doing everything we can to win. And five runs in two innings, we can't do that. Ron Gardenhire
five hot pandemic spotlight weeks zero
We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not going to be ready. Irwin Redlener
five helping lost match minutes start talk
We started five minutes after (Kline) lost. It's something you reel in right then. You start helping him refocus. You don't talk too much about the match he just lost but about what we're going to do in the future. You have to be there to help him. David Grant
five games losing loss months spent
We spent five months losing series. That's what has us five games back - not the loss tonight. Felipe Alou
five good hopefully level top
I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.
five hundred sea travel undertaken
A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
five players regardless talent
We're not going to make excuses. You put five players on the court, regardless of who's hurt. Obviously, we have enough talent to win.
five four helps softball sponsor summer teams
We also sponsor four or five softball teams which helps us during the summer months.
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."
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..."
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.
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.
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.
knows self-examination
He who knows himself knows others.
knows written
I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
knows
I'm so private and I don't know why! China Chow
knows
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
knows limitation
You will never know your limitations until you find them. David Murphy
knows i-can
Ultimately, I am all I can know. Byron Katie
knows
Know your own happiness. Jane Austen
knows rely roads talk time
When you talk to the crews, everybody's tired, but at the same time everyone knows they rely on us to keep the roads open. I think we're doing our best. We're just going to keep trying.
knows
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V. Bill Joy
lasts remember there-is-hope
Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.
lasts fool firsts
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. Charles Simmons
lasts dubbing spokes
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
last nine won
We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.
last people ready year
We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.
lasts eloquent last-time
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
lasts records haircuts
You're only as good as your last record. David Sanborn
lasts female worship
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. Camille Paglia
lasts needs kind
I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! Bryan Lee O'Malley
minds product stick
We want our product to stick in the minds of consumers.
minds offices work
When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible. Nate Corddry
mindset stay
Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air. Richie Benaud
minds
should be able to make up their own minds about what they view. Chris Evans
minds
Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive. William Wordsworth
mindset project trying
To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like. David Zayas
mindset performed
We want to keep that mindset going. They've performed admirably so far.
minds none running
None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.
mindset
I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard. Curt Schilling
next generations products
The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation. Al Ries
next causes steps
I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me. Akon
next
We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.
next want knows
I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next. Chris Cooper
next performances improving
Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance. Carolina Kluft
next performance sequels stock store
The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.
next percent spending total
We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.
next night parking spent until
We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning. David Foster
next faces realization
In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body. Bill Porter
providence mark ifs
We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes Charles Spurgeon
provides recognize turn turned vehicle
When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.
provide strongly
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. Martin Seligman
provide run
We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.
provide services
We're being called on to provide services we don't have,
providers step ultimately
Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.
provide town type
She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.
provide students
We're able to provide a lot of opportunity. These are the things that students see the most.
provided statements
Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.
supposed
We were supposed to get it the first of December.
supposed
We wrestled very well. We weren't outstanding. We just wrestled like we're supposed to wrestle.
supposed
I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism. Robert Wilson
supposed
She was able to make some shots. That's what she is supposed to do.
supposed watch
She's a player. You watch her play and you say, 'That's how the game's supposed to be played.
supposed
Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher. Common
supposed
I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say. Francine Prose
supposed
We did what we were supposed to do, but we are not where we are going to be. We are going to be better.
supposed win
We did what we were supposed to do and now we've got to come back and try to win it.
technology hands people
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
technology civilization goal
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.
technology fit lifestyle
The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles. Alan Mulally
technology matter watches
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
technology fields needs
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. Alan Perlis
technology thinking people
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
technology bird worms
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
technology two benefits
Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters. Alan Moore
technology amish kind
I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.
tools good-times all-time
All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so. Carlos Slim
tools said pins
Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy. Madeleine Albright
tools levels littles
No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them. Charles Lyell
tools defeated ifs
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools. Billy Higgins
tools materials
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with. David Ricardo
tools use digital
Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show. David Brenner
tools fool worship
Only fools worship their tools Dee Hock
tools want needs
Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need. Agnes Varda
tools management obstacles
The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.
training felt
I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good. David Ginola
training stardom
I've been in training for stardom. Bernie Mac
training mind taught
I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved. Arnold Schwarzenegger
training adore hard
I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard. Deena Kastor
training boeing film
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Bill Nye
training mind spirit
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. Alan K. Simpson
training java degrees
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. Alan Kay
training benefits enough
You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training. Bernard Lagat
training age trying
We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don't want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to that message. Bill Wilkinson