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It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

It is what you do about what happens that counts.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life.

It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

I told myself if I ever made it to the level I want to be at, I'm gonna give back.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

I truly believe that we are here to bless and prosper, each other.

I truly want what you truly want-nothing different and nothing more. Don't you see that is My greatest gift to you? If I wanted for you something other than what you want for you, and then went so far as to cause you to have it, where is your free choice? How can you be a creative being if I am dictating what you shall be, do, and have? My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.

I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

I try to make sense of life. I try to keep myself open to people and to laughter and to love and to have faith.

I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.

I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

I try to walk on the sunny side of the street.

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.

It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make; it's about the things you choose to say - today. It's about what you're gonna do after you finish reading this.