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Properly, we should read for power. -- Ezra Pound
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful. -- B. F. Skinner
Properly speaking, all true work is religion. -- Thomas Carlyle
Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. -- Corey Ford
Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment. -- Robert Genn
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten. -- William Bernbach
Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital. -- Kenneth Kaye
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -- Isaac Asimov
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. -- Pierre Bayle
Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. -- Elizabeth Zimmermann
Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on, -- Edward Snowden
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't mess around when it comes to brushing my teeth. Properly brushed, twice a day, every day, to get my day started. -- Victor Cruz
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. -- Ezra Pound
With a corset on, you can't breathe properly. -- Mia Wasikowska
Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests. -- Deepak Chopra
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -- Omar N. Bradley
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. -- Queen Elizabeth II
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly. -- Danica McKellar
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. -- Xun Zi
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. -- William Penn
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed. -- Dr. Seuss
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. -- Juan Manuel Fangio
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it. -- Tony Buzan
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. -- Pauline Hanson
Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt. -- Bam Margera
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. -- Jesse Ventura
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. -- Jonathan Edwards
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
Always think twice before you decide to do anything for a film. It may seem like a career-changing idea, but think of your family and your future before doing anything risky. Train properly, because looking strong and being strong are two different things. -- Akshay Kumar
I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day. -- Joseph Mawle
Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed. -- Prince Andrew
Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership that is calm, assertive, sure of themselves. And quite honestly, I don't think that some of these young Marines care if it's a male or a female. They just want to be properly led. -- Loretta Reynolds
If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true. -- James D. Watson
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices. -- Teju Cole
Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule. -- Biz Stone
It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly. -- Rafael Nadal
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards. -- Warren Farrell
I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it. -- Adele
You must learn to wait properly. -- Eugen Herrigel
Time properly invested is worth a fortune. -- Jim Rohn
There is properly no history, only biography. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like children. If they're properly cooked. -- W. C. Fields
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. -- Helen Schucman
To breathe properly is to live properly. -- Robin Sharma
I just want things to work properly. -- James Dyson
I just think things should work properly -- James Dyson
A goal properly set is halfway reached. -- Zig Ziglar
In a life properly lived, you're a river, -- Jim Harrison
Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets. -- Tom Robbins
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
How about having a properly equipped crash cart? -- Melissa Rivers
The easiest way to do anything is properly. -- K.J. Parker
A little snark, properly directed, can change the world. -- Shannon Hale
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. -- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly -- Patrick Rothfuss
No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet. -- Christopher Paolini
Now, let's hear some properly terrified screaming, puny humans! -- Howard Tayler
"¦dearest, loveliest Elizabeth [...] By you, I was properly humbled. -- Jane Austen
John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly. -- Rich Lowry
I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time. -- Sade Adu
And without understanding, could each properly love the other? -- Anita Brookner
If you do it properly, life is art, really. -- Caitlin Moran
When it's done properly, taco should be a verb. -- Jonathan Gold
What is right may properly be uttered even twice. -- Empedocles
Anything works, as long as you write it properly. -- Russell T Davies
The only substance properly so called is the soul. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world. -- Jacques Audiard
It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly. -- Diana Vreeland
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. -- Mark Twain
Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair. -- Napoleon Hill
Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films. -- Colin Hanks
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. -- Sun Tzu
Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly. -- Miriam Makeba
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized. -- J. G. Holland
Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Champions are everywhere, you just have to train them properly -- Arthur Lydiard
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. -- James Van Fleet
Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage. -- Erma Bombeck
If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly. -- Stanley Williams
How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' . -- George Bernard Shaw
Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear. -- Tom Clancy
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly. -- Umberto Eco
One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly. -- Theodor Adorno
Her mother always said that dressing properly could save one's life -- Susana Fortes
A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone. -- Nachman of Breslov
Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success. -- Cyrus McCormick
Life may as properly be called an art as any other. -- Henry Fielding
I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions. -- Steven Rodney McQueen
No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance. -- Hortense Odlum
In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly -- Allen Leech
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. -- Novalis
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius. -- Mike Tyson
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. -- Rinus Michels
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. -- David Hume
Advertising is a wonderful lubricant for business, if it's used properly. -- John Cullum
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions. -- W. Clement Stone
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it. -- Novalis
I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie. -- Gillian Flynn
You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly. -- Boy George
There's always a certain pride in getting the job done properly. -- Tom Hardy
Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest. -- John Wilkins
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. -- Charles de Gaulle
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity. -- Errol Morris
Our sexual energy, when not properly mastered, is transformed into anger. -- Paulo Coelho
No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized. -- James Cash Penney
Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics. -- Lisa Randall
Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe. -- Cecelia Ahern
The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated. -- Edward Kasner
They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right. -- Joseph Jackson
There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity. -- Stonewall Jackson
You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. -- C. S. Lewis
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated. -- James Newman
Our vets are not being treated properly, they're not being treated fairly. -- Donald Trump

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