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Og Mandino Quotes

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 12, 1923 - September 3, 1996

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Manners Sugar Improve Seek Attracted

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

People Result Actor Two Over Happen

Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.

Age Food Parents Me World Career

I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

Learning Science Money School Active

I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

Teacher School Fun Inspire Thought

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

Growth Performance Conversation Steps

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing - which is good for me, as that's one part of where I'm at. It's been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.

Good Great College Me Seeing Jazz

My wife would like to live in Spain; I'd like to live in Italy.

Live Wife Spain Would Italy Like

There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather. The implications of that, in what it has from a grain standpoint, are enormous.

People Design Growing Now DNA More

Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested.

Name Place Just Few Often After

I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I've no regrets.

Work New Things America New Regrets

The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems.

Life Time Job Empathy Performance

To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.

Time Perspective Man People Me Way

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