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Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.
Gaining people's trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people's trust is having to abandon them.
The one thing that might have stopped San Bernardino, that might have stopped 9/11 would have been stricter controls on those who came here.
I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.
If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.
Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.
Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.
The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.
I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
The climb might be tough and challenging,but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can't always see it right away.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
Sober alkies are often asked: "When did you hit rock bottom?" but a more informed question might be: "How many times did you hit rock bottom?
I see that a number of persons might consider it appropriate to take the ECB as a possible scapegoat and I think that is not the case at all.
Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.
...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.
We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for all of us - if we let them do it.
That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.
I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.
I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.
I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.
I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.
I just feel like I'm going to be criticized regardless of what I do next, so I might as well do something that I feel really passionate about.
And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.
Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.
Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.