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«Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.»
«An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.»
«History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.»
«Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.»
Author: P. B. Fitzwater | About: Character | Keywords: choices, sum
«Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)»
«In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Change, Hope, Life, Perseverance | Keywords: sum, sum up
«If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.»
«Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.»
«And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....I sum up by saying that since his being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself, [one] should build on what is his own, and not on what rests with others.»
«Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.»

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