The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

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Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ― Robert Frost

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I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks ― bh

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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

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It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.

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I started cooking professionally because I had hit a point in my life where I was just sort of lost and cooking was something I had always loved and so I grabbed onto it. - Amanda Cohen

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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We work to become, not to acquire. — Elbert Hubbard

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