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We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.
Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.
If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.
Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.
There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.
There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.
We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.
I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.
We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.
Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?
Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.
I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.
The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.
There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
Most Achievers I Know Are People Who Have Made A Strong And Deep Dedication to Pursuing A Particular Goal. That Dedication Took A Tremendous Amount Of Effort.
In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.