- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Applying Quotes
On giving real effort to whatever you take on.
These lines are about full commitment—giving yourself over to a task, treating every project as worthy of the same care, and finding a personal principle that turns a limitation into an advantage. It fits naturally with our Best theme.
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- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
- Decision-Makers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationwide injunctions undermine the democratic process, depart from history and tradition, violate constitutional principles, and impede sound judicial administration, all at the cost of public confidence in our institutions and particularly in our courts as apolitical decision-makers dispassionately applying objective law.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get to know the job intimately that you're applying for. Don't just read the job description - study it and picture yourself performing every task required of you. When you interview, framing your responses so that you reveal your significant knowledge about the job gives you a massive advantage.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
- Hesitation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nintendo is applying the benefits of advanced technology, but we're using it to make our machines more power-efficient, quieter, and faster to start.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'aha' moment came one to me one morning when I was applying my mascara, and I realized that the retirement crisis is actually a woman's crisis: Women live longer than men yet retire with less money.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up around food and in a restaurant, so it never dawned on me that this was a thing to do; it just was. Then I found it as a profession in my mid-twenties after years of bad decisions and depression. The first step was going to the bookstore and learning about this craft. Then applying in kitchens and just getting to work.
- Nov 07, 2020