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“You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.”

Ifs Want Stills Running Three Hours Four Minutes Ought Nine Want Something Visitors

Book:The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.”

Littles Sometimes Light Running Today Earth Environment Amount Survival Errors Species Billions Nine Fifty Cents Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!”

“If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.”

Ifs Home Running Dies Ten Nine Cages Back Home Wild Things

Book:Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels