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“There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.”

Giving Hard Games Winning Sleep Careers Cases Our Lives Sacrifice Hard Work Giving Up Notion Accomplish Stealing Zero Somewhere Else Zero Sum Game

Author:Maynard Webb

“There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.”

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Author:Donald Davidson

“Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as a concept. Either that, or we decide that the ability to communicate in private, without constant monitoring by authorities, has the greater value - in which case copyright will have to give way.”

Way Giving Values Ability Steps Cases Greater Communication Giving Up Authority Concepts Constant Communicate Active Copyright Monitoring Ability To Communicate

Author:Rick Falkvinge

“I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance.”

Giving Whole Seems Cities Cases Giving Up Argument Tasks Army Regard Remains British Bones Resistance Germany Strategic Bombing

Author:Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“When I move from being a cameraman to being a director I looked at a lot of other cameramen who tried to make the move. And in each case they moved up their camera operator to be the DP, which really meant they didn't want to give up being the DP, and really wanted to do both. And my feeling was if I was going to succeed as a director, I had to just be a director and give up the safety net of being a cameraman.”

Ifs Want Giving Feelings Wanted Moving Cases Succeed Directors Giving Up Cameras Safety Moved Really Mean Safety Net Operators Cameraman

Author:Barry Sonnenfeld

“With the great people that you work with, it's that they're never giving up and they're never thinking something's finished until they've really, really run out of time. They keep pushing in case there's a better idea around the corner.”

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Author:Steven Price

“Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.”

“A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.”

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Author:Dan Scanlon

“Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.”

“Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?”

Ifs Thinking Giving Should Might Action Courses Understanding Differences Chance Decision Cases Knowing Fate Giving Up Optimism Chaos Terror Get Up Cheer Here And Now Pessimist Futility

Author:Salman Rushdie

“It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.”

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Author:Lorrie Moore

“On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop”

“Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda