- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.
- Nov 07, 2020
You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
- Clouds
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
- Hammer
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sell a prospecting concession, you're only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vaccines have played a fundamental role in eradicating terrible illnesses such as polio, diphtheria, and hepatitis. However, they bring a risk associated with side-effects that are usually temporary and surmountable... but, in very rare cases, can be as severe as getting the same disease you're trying to be immune to.
- Nov 07, 2020