Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

Gretchen Rubin

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I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

Andre Rieu

SuccessMusicHeartThinkKnowWill

In Kansas I have a chess school.

Anatoly Karpov

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The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

John Sherman Cooper

ServicePeopleMeThinkThreeFBI

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

Amanda Lindhout

TravelMeHardBecauseVitalPlane

I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'

Summer Sanders

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You go to the gym to make sure you have the stamina to breathe in the corsets.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

Robin Wright

GirlBeingValleyIdeaHatedEven

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

Rory Freedman

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Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

LifeManKissYouNoseThings

When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you think of Mitch Leigh as a composer, remember he's also a businessman.

Mitch Leigh

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Beethoven's fourth and seventh symphonies have a certain amount in common. Well, of course they're both written by Beethoven, but besides that, I would say their overall effect and idea is to provide the listener with an incredible sense of joy.

Joshua Bell

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Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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