Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.
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The earnings quality was weak because the earnings growth was driven by lines that are very hard to forecast or unpredictable like trading incomes and acquired loan portfolios. These were the lines that really drove the earnings results and were unusually high this quarter.
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He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
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With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.
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He really gave us an opportunity to turn this franchise around overnight.
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The Four Seasons wanted me to become the chef, and I didn't feel that at age 28 I was ready to become the chef.
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History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.
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I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
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I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
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Connie, all my life I kept trying to go up in society where everything was legal, straight.... But the higher I go the crookeder it becomes. W...
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We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.
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I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.
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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
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Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
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When I was a cook and 24 years old... I read the kinds of books that were the inspiration to understanding the value of simplicity in cooking.
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I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
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If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
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With the loss of Mario, there's a lot of leadership lost there so I think they want to step up and show that even more. They're experienced guys and they're trying to lead the way.
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It's not easy to work like this. We had already discussed that money, it's money that was expected.
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Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any powerful man. Any man who's responsible for other people. Like a senator or a president.
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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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