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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. ↗

— William James

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There's just something hypnotic about maps. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#hypnotic #just #maps #something

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#definitely #elegant #event #heel #i

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges. ↗

— Jewel

#always #appetite #bored #challenges #easily

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours. ↗

— Jewel

#door #focused #hours #i #left

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love. ↗

— John H. Johnson

#much #ought #profession #something #spend

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#argument #believe #brilliant #case #chain

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#closed #closed system #cosmic #effects #example

I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#consider #considered #else #going #got

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#face #got #grandmother #had #her