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Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.

Russell Simmons

I don’t know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It’s the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.
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Benefits Favor Trying
[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it’s a big success story for everyone – except the music industry itself.
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Artist Events People
Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.
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Development Honesty Self
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
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Country Inspiration Writing
It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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Entrepreneur Open Simple World
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Choices Gratefulness Practice
The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it.
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Inspiration Seconds Sunset
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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People Process Steps
The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.
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Grace Mind Thinking
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
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Artist Different People Sharing Thinking
You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.
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Entrepreneur Real Sincere
No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
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Dream Jobs Trying
No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
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Circumstance Done Matter
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Art Form Noise Stillness
And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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Increase People Positive Vibrations
I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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Radio Records Way

Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.

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Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.

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