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My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.


Chelsea Clinton


#adage #away #been #beginning #challenging

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.


Terri Windling


#adage #before #done #how #old

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.


Glenn Hoddle


#apply #because #change #exploit #football

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.


Natalie Coughlin


#become #coaches #complacent #completely #disagree

The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: 'If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.' The rest of the cast remembered a television director's adage.


Audrey Meadows


#cast #close #direction #director #ever

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'


Chelsea Clinton


#academic #adage #difference #grandmother #happens

Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world.


ryan fitzpatrick


#algorithm #coalescence #copulation #flarf #inheritance-cycle

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.


Mia Love


#america #both #cannot #communities #difficulties

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.


Paul Thomas Anderson


#ahead #audience #film #get #great

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.


Harold W. Dodds


#best #each #force #insecurity #never






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