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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“Identify with the guy you want to be: The one who hits the ball out of the ball park; the one who doesn’t conform to the rules; the one who’s exciting; the one you want to be, the non-conformist. — Bill Veeck”
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“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. — Martin Luther King Jr (19291968), Speech in Detroit [June 23, 1963]”
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“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. — James F. Clarke”
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“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. — Sir Isaac Newton (16421727), Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675/1676”
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“If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly until you can do it well. — Robert Fritz”
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“If we cannot be contented with a little, no wealth will ever satisfy us. — Helen Keller”
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“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. — Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672), Meditations Divine and Moral, 14”
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“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. — Mother Teresa”
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“If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. — Harry S. Truman”
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“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. — Frank Wilczek, 2004 Nobel Prize winner in physics”
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“If you need to be loved, get a dog. — Alan Weiss”
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“If you prioritize properly, there is no need to multitask. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. — Napoleon”
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“In order for people to burn out, they need to have been on fire at some time in the past. — Thomas Armstrong”
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“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein”
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“Initiative consists of doing the right thing without being told. — Irving Mack”
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“Inspiration, once thought to be the province of only a chosen few, is available to all of us if only we learn to develop our innate capacities. — Gabriele Lusser Rico”
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“Intense focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that normally attract attention. — Daniel Kahneman”
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“It is better to wear out than rust out. — Millard Fillmore”
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“It is by fighting the limitations, temptations, and failures of the world that we reach our highest possibilities. — Helen Keller”
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“It is difficulties which show what men are. — Epictetus”
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“It is faith which lights us into sustaining realities beyond those perceived by the physical senses. — Helen Keller”
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“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. — Douglas MacArthur”
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“It is hard to spend your life and the best of your imagination, energies, and efforts on something you don’t care about. — Robert Fritz”
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“It is imperative that you learn to ignore or redirect all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable. Most are all three. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. — George Washington”
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“It is not doing the thing which we like to do, but liking to do the thing which we have to do, that makes life blessed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”
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“It is often better to recognize the inevitable and make it work for you. — Charles Handy”
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“It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl. — Ralph Waldo Emerson”
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“It’s not about time. It never was and never is. It’s about energy. — Jim Loehr”
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“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. — Vince Lombardi”
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“Lack of time is actually lack of priorities. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Let him that would move the world first move himself. — Socrates”
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“Letting yourself be bad is the best way to become good. — Jerry Cleaver”
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“Limit the number of items on your to-do list and use impossibly short deadlines to force immediate action while ignoring minutiae. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882), A Psalm of Life, st. 7”
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“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. — Michelangelo”
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“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. — Oprah Winfrey”
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“Many performers adopt the strategy of staying within the confines of their current level of competence. They never attempt to accomplish anything that might fail. — Robert Fritz”
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