Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
- Topic: Decision
- Location: Hana, Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.