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“Discipline and diligence are up there on the list, but one of the most important qualities of many really successful people is humility. If you have a degree of humility about you, you have the ability to take advice, to be coachable, teachable. A humble person never stops learning.”

“It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The next page would be People I Have Slept With and then another list. Then the last page would be Famous People I Have Partied With and then another list. Because that's all people write in their autobiographies. Cut out all the bullshit and it's just a three-page pamphlet.”

People Writing Firsts Would Be Lasts Three Next Taken Cutting Drug Pages Lists Bullshit Autobiography

Author:Ryan Jarman

“Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.”

People Want Littles Directors Lists

Author:Alan Parker

“They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing . . . I bought the food for everyone.”

Book Hands Talent Mouths Sick Jew Lists Feds Nurse Nursing Schindler Schindler's List

Author:Emilie Schindler

“THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that list - no money, no place on the list. I was told this by a Dr Schwartz, in Vienna; he had paid in diamonds to save his wife”

Men Names Wife Paid Lists Diamond Drs No Money Vienna Schindler Schindler's List

Author:Emilie Schindler

“Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut—spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.”

Bigs Running Courses Opportunity Results Rights Events Ordinary Investment Profit Lists Corporate Assets Offering Distribution Bankruptcy Mergers Restructuring

Author:Joel Greenblatt

“Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!”

Ifs Reason Lying Lists Selfish Life Changing Motive Torture Rejection Liars Resurrection Persecution Misunderstanding Lied Apostles Martyrdom Perks Selfish Reasons

Author:Peter Kreeft

“I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.”

Wanted Wish Percent Resources Screens Lists Budgets Schedules

Author:Brad Bird

“The saving of the Jews in Europe did not figure at the head of the list of priorities of the ruling class. It was the foundation of the State which was primordial in their eyes.”

States Eye Class Figures Europe Foundation Jew Lists Priorities Saving Ruling

Author:Tom Segev

“What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.”

Source: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

“To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.”

Has Beens Female Smell Lists Suitcases Packing Jasmine

Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.”

May Principles Degrees Lists Empires Korea North Korea Evangelical Nepotism Mailing

Author:Frank Schaeffer

“I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back.”

Giving Writing Years Has Beens Book Four Position Lists Four Years Qualifications Bookkeepers

Book:Overqualified

Source: Overqualified

“The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs… the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.”

Ifs Needs Years Children Different States Social United United States Program Lists Billions Administration Breakup Lasting Marriage Social Programs

Author:Wade Horn

“By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”

“List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your career. Then take action on at least one of them.”

Action Next Careers Lists

Author:Brian Tracy

“There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.”

Should Choices Names Stars Roles Saws Air Males Lists Fearless Daring Cages Limbs Movie Star Suspended Unafraid

Book:The Great Movies III

Source: The Great Movies III

“Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil.”

World Needs Should Important Christian Lasts Evil Born Prayer Doors Activity Lists Priorities Glorious Tides Stem Born Again Last Day Need Prayer

Book:Effective Prayer Life

Source: Effective Prayer Life

“I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.”

Done My Own Audience Lists

Author:Mira Nair

“Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.”

Giving Trying Looks Honest Lists Viewers Microphones

Author:Mike Rowe

“I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.”

Firsts Has Beens Names Careers Saws Player Position Baseball Lists Champion Exception Runners Could Have Been Pitcher Batting Wagner Versatile Shortstops

Author:John McGraw

“We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.”

People Long Use Values Turns Difficult Design Produce Products Cost Findings Negative Harder Customers Driven Lists Features Working It Product Design

Book:JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

Source: JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

“If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Problem Internet Computer Solve Lists

Author:Merlin Mann

“You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can't. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you're you? Are you sure you didn't slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing?”

“The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Soul Form My Own Prayer Seeing Please Goodness Highest Sacred Profit Lists Thanks Midst Pens His Love Clinging Shutters

Author:Ann Voskamp

“I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.”

Mind Forget Path Balls Seven Deeper Lists Twins Traveled Entering Intuitive Similarity Forget You Labyrinth Thematic Twin Peaks

Author:Mark Frost

“Just so you know, I hate camping. I'm not so much appreciating the fact that there's no bathroom out here. 'Nature calls' while walking in nature is on my list of least favorite things. You tigers, and men in general, have it so much easier than us girls.”

Knows Men Facts Hate Girl Walking Easier Appreciate I Hate Lists Tigers Bathroom Favorites Things Camping

Book:Tiger's Curse: Tiger Saga

Source: Tiger's Curse: Tiger Saga

“Lists help us manage the chaos of our lives—to impose order, if only for a moment. Writing a list clears the mind. … Once everything is written down, it’s easier to see which tasks are important and in what order to tackle them. Tasks that seem overwhelming look easier when reduced to mere lines on paper.”

Ifs Writing Mind Looks Important Moments Helping Seems Order Lines Our Lives Written Easier Paper Tasks Mere Chaos Lists Manage Overwhelming

Author:Sasha Cagen

“An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed and Two Noughts, a third of which was a homage to Vermeer. Conceivably, if you are a list-enthusiast like me, the New York telephone directory might be fascinating, demographically, geographically, historically, typographically, cartographically; but I am sure no compliment was intended.”

Ifs Two Might Film Three Watches New York Thirds Critics Lists Like Me Fascinating Compliment Telephones Three Times Homage Vermeer

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.”

Ifs May Asks Lists Girlfriend Calendars Babysitter

Author:Anna Quindlen

“God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God.”

Fall Religious Answers Calling Harder Falling In Love Passionate Lists God Love Complacency Passionate Love Love Relationship

Book:Remembering the Forgotten God: An Interactive Workbook for Individual and Small Group Study

Source: Remembering the Forgotten God: An Interactive Workbook for Individual and Small Group Study

“Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.”

Ifs Would Be Lists Remarkable Commonplace

Author:Seth Godin

“Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing or failing. There's only us, each moment shaping who we are, into what we will become.”

Moments Earth Purpose Failing Events Tests Lists Checks Passing Passings Accomplishment Who We Are

Author:Cynthia Hand

“There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'”

Firsts Made Film Three Proud Thirds Connected Lists Commit Saving Schindler Schindler's List Saving Private Ryan

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.”

Should Leader Lists Complacency

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.”

Want Looks Would Be Desire Night Next Achieve Benefits Currents Lists Retiring Payoff Wants And Desires

Author:Denis Waitley

“Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.”

People May Done Passion Sound Results Letters Obvious Lists Data Interviews Links Concrete Employers Resumes Interviewers

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure. Instead, we cling to our To Do lists and sacrifice our health and well-being for the sake of others. Then, when we feel deprived of our basic human need for relaxation and enjoyment, we turn to food as our sole source of pleasure. When we then try to deprive ourselves of food through dieting, we deny the last bit of pleasure we have in our lives. And that strategy never works!”

“Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.”

Should Sometimes Quality Leader Perfection Performances Strive Individuality Lists Honestly Authenticity Defined Stem Strategic Presenting Powerful Women True Leader True Leadership

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative.”

Facts Careers Taken Drug Negative Tests Performances Lists Banned Performance Enhancing Drugs

Author:Stephen Roche

“Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don’t sell a lot. But they’re both great.”

Wells Book Certain Type Sells Lists Great Book Success Is Not Measured

Author:Po Bronson

“Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.”

Men Life Humans Long Nature Essentials Lists Human Life Soil Surveyors

Author:Hugh Hammond Bennett

“No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.”

Matter Elements No Matter What Luck Fortune Lists Mates Timing Requirements Good Fortune Good Luck Laundry

Author:Patty Duke

“It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.”

Trying Government Political Politics Wind Revolution Lists Embarrassing Sellers Best Sellers

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.”

Believe I Believe Nations Numbers Difficulty Lists Fatherlessness

Author:Tony Dungy

“Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams - he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times - and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list. I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.”

Thinking Might Cities Situation Known Records Team Red Fellows Sells Track Various Lists Owners Nba Twins Stadiums Spurs Track Record Nuggets

Author:Bud Adams

“We're going to start with the injury report, obviously. Manning, Clark, Addai, Reggie Wayne, Freeney, Mathis, Brackett - all those guys will not play. Oh, hold up. That was my wish list for Santa Claus.”

Play Funny Guy Wish Football Lists Nfl Reports Injury Santa Wayne Santa Claus My Wish Funny American Football

Author:Rex Ryan

“I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues. Human Rights Watch probably has a list of things they think we should be doing as a government.”

Thinking Way Should Firsts Humans Stills States Government United Watches United States Issues Rights Human Rights Lists Ministers Acknowledge Prime Prime Minister Obnoxious Malaysia

Author:Barack Obama

“The day after Republicans won solid majorities in the House and Senate, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader-to-be Mitch McConnell outlined priorities for the newly elected Congress. High on the list is fundamental tax reform. In addition to overhauling the federal tax code, however, Congress should rein in the Internal Revenue Service.”

Should House Leader Republican Taxes Fundamentals Majority Congress Lists Priorities Reform Code Internals Senate Speakers Revenue Notable Reins Tax Reform Federal Taxes Majority Leader

Author:Cleta Mitchell

“Remember, life is for living and learning. So listen to your life and the lessons it offers. What choices must you make this day to help you move forward? Make your list of the things you can do right now to create what you want and begin to do the work. You can say yes to happiness, wholeness, and prosperity. You can live fully and creatively. You can claim your power to choose. Why not claim it now?”

Want Life Helping Remember Moving Life Is Choices Can Do Lessons Right Now Offers Claims Prosperity What You Want Lists Moving Forward Why Not This Day Wholeness Live And Learn

Book:Lessons in Living

Source: Lessons in Living

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