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«If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world»
Author: Andrew Mellon | About: Business | Keywords: adventure, dulled, foremost, position, spirit world
«Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.»
Author: Colin Powell | About: Leadership | Keywords: details, distracted, distracting, distracts, doubly, dulled, neglect, vigilant
«Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story»
Author: Max Ehrman | About: Truth | Keywords: and the, Another Story, clearly, dull, dulled, duller, dullest, dulling, dulls, even, ignorant, listen, listen in, others, quietly, speak, story, their, too, truth
«I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.»
Author: Tallulah Bankhead (Actress) | Keywords: bed, ditch, ditched, ditches, dull, dulled, duller, dullest, dulling, dulls, get up, go to bed, mute, muted, mutes, phobia, phobias, slick, sonnet, Sonnets, water bed
«A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.»
Author: Bill Watterson (Author) | Keywords: ADD, battle, battle of, disrespect, disrespected, drama, dramas, dull, dulled, duller, dullest, dulling, dulls, elevate, interaction, interactions, otherwise, rudeness, wills
«In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | Keywords: bent, bents, blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, dull, dulled, grindstone, hammer, hammered, hammering, hammers, hammer in, instrument, seeing
«It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Books | Keywords: dull, dulled, duller, dullest, dulling, dulls, readers
«Happiness ain't a thing in itself /it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: any longer, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, dulled, fresh, novelties, novelty, pleasant, The Force, thing in itself
«I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey (Actress, Producer) | About: Women | Keywords: conflict, conflict of, dull, dulled, duller, dullest, dulling, dulls, learning process, process, trying
«Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: People | Keywords: breakfast, breakfasted, breakfasts, brilliant, dull, dulled, duller, dullest, dulling, dulls
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