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Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you. -- John C. Maxwell
Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me. -- Claire Danes
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. -- Philip Stanhope
With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses. -- James K. Polk
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. -- Edsger Dijkstra
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. -- Jerome K. Jerome
You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better. -- Ron Johnson
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more. -- Michael Gerber
A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. -- Albert Ellis
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. -- George Orwell
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. -- Sylvia Plath
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day. -- J. D. Hayworth
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love - from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare. -- Mireille Mathieu
Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite. -- Chuck Klosterman
I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone. -- Jane Birkin
There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people. -- Vince Cable
I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them. -- Karan Johar
When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task. -- Karen Finerman
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. -- James Hillman
I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me. -- Sonu Nigam
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. -- Reince Priebus
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world. -- Helen McCrory
The dragonfly is an exceptionally beautiful insect and a fierce carnivore. It has four wings that beat independently. This gives it an ability to maneuver in the air with superb dexterity. A dragonfly can put on a burst of speed, stop on a dime, hover, fly backward, and switch direction in a flash. This is a hunting behavior known as hawking. -- Richard Preston
Crazy often means being exceptionally creative -- Constance Chuks Friday
Women have to work exceptionally hard. -- Madeleine Albright
My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me. -- John Malkovich
I'm really happy for [David Petraeus]. He's exceptionally talented. -- Paula Broadwell
Bella, it's not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant. -- Stephenie Meyer
Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time. -- Robin Williams
Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. -- Walter Isaacson
Jace whistled. "Raphael is really having an exceptionally bad night." -Jace, pg.283- -- Cassandra Clare
Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. -- Sylvia Plath
Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me. -- Irene Rosenfeld
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company? -- Alfred Jarry
With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable. -- Gene Simmons
The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well. -- Julian Barnes
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. -- Philip Stanhope
He was shorter than an average eight-year-old boy but exceptionally tall for a tulip. -- Stephanie Kallos
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. -- Philip Stanhope
He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography. -- John Sexton
I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. -- Christopher Meloni
This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ... -- Ruggiero Ricci
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient. -- James Surowiecki
We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves. -- Robert Barron
The big commercial concerns of to-day are quite exceptionally incompetent. They will be even more incompetent when they are omnipotent. -- G.K. Chesterton
A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin. -- Steven J. Carroll
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. -- Edsger Dijkstra
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original. -- Horace
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. -- Edsger Dijkstra
You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well. -- Warren Buffett
In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed. -- Robert Gilpin
And there was no reason for them to be dancing the Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night -- Mark Helprin
A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful. -- Darren Hardy
A pro does as well as he can within whathe has set out to doand a madmandoes exceptionally well at whathe can't helpdoing. -- Charles Bukowski
Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well. -- Lea Salonga
My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach. -- Caroline Rhea
...though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Passion creates energy and magnetically pulls co-workers and customers into a shared vision, and it is exceptionally strong when linked with a leader's values. -- John C. Maxwell
The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming. -- Johann Lamont
The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer. -- Neal Shusterman
An exceptionally positive emotional response indicates that you're summoning the divine energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in nonresistant manner. -- Wayne Dyer
Are you sure? A brow arched upBecause I'm here at your service and taking your jeans off is something I feel I'd be exceptionally wonderful at. -- J. Lynn
If we estimate people's responsibility according to the time when they were left exceptionally on their own, then today's generation is a stubborn crowd of hopeless peers. -- Alexander Zalan
Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara -- Aaron Allston
Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die.Mara -- Aaron Allston
Are you sure?" A brow arched up. "Because I'm here at your service and taking your jeans off is something I feel I'd be exceptionally wonderful at. -- J. Lynn
If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT! -- John Eliot
My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I'd long stopped believing in God. -- Simon Schama
In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent. -- James W. Loewen
The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound. -- Helen Weston
I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter. -- Dot Richardson
You are supposed to be ON. By ON I mean doing your very best work always. Operating at a level where you are dangerously good and exceptionally creative. -- Detavio Samuels
The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will become exceptionally beautiful in time. -- Bisco Hatori
There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses. -- Jon Landau
The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears." -- Kate DiCamillo
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists. -- Albert Camus
What a grim feeling it is to come across a written line so exceptionally inspiring that your first reaction is, 'Criminy, why didn't I ever think to write that!' -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. -- Arthur Quiller-Couch
It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time. -- Voltaire
Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core. -- Sharon Bolton
In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself. -- Peter C Bunnell
Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug. -- Erik Naggum
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. -- Sylvia Plath
Instead of feeling sorry for the exceptionally able student who has no one to talk to, we need to worry about what happens when the exceptionally able students hang out only with one another. -- Charles Murray
The weird part is actually, there were so many exceptionally talented people there [ on "MADtv"]. But it was a disaster. I don't think I enjoyed any of it, really. I had a different sensibility. -- Simon Helberg
About ten degrees upslope of Fiction, I could see our nearest neighbor: Artistic Criticism. It was an exceptionally beautiful island, yet deeply troubled, confused and suffused with a blanketing layer of almost impenetrable bullshit. -- Jasper Fforde
I feel for today's leaders. I really do. They got to where they are by doing a series of jobs exceptionally well. And that doesn't help them at all with the challenges they now face. -- Scott D. Anthony
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man. -- Bertrand Russell

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