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Letter "L" » launch
«You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
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«You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.»
«Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.»
Author: William Gaddis
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«Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air -- explode softly -- and send thousands, millions, of little»
Author: Robert Fulghum
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a million times, bomb, crisis, developed, explode, explodes, exploding, in the air, launch, launching, millions, send, softly, Thousands, thousand million, time bomb
«They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch 3 million dollar missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away -- Who are the real cowards?»
«The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.»
«You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
The Present
| Keywords:
eternity, fools, island, Islands of the, land, Land of Opportunity, launch, launches, launching, live in, No Wave, opportunities
«We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
acquisition, as many, automatic, decided, exception, habitual, initiative, launch, occur, rooted, securely
«The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
homemade, launch, quarreling, spaceship, worthless
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