#examples

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

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Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#behave #business #creative #creative people #daughter

I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does. ↗

— Kevin Costner

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All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance. ↗

— James Lafferty

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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. ↗

— Jack Miller

#examples #human #lies #major #noble

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#anonymity #celebrity #conducive #cover #every

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#child #crime #depression #drive #examples

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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