Accepting Quotes - Page 17

• You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.

  Alan Jackson

  Thinking, Criticism, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking and know what they'll accept from you.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Thinking, Pulse, Fingers

  "Johnson Awaits Broadway Musical Offer" by WENN, www.imdb.com. March 12, 2009.

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• It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

  J. D. Pardo

  People, Majority, Hard

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• The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.

  Paula Patton

  Appreciate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

  Richard Perle

  War, Citizens, Lax

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.82, Random House

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• It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

  Alan Rudolph

  Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Teenager, Weight, Body

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• If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

  Asne Seierstad

  Book, Writing, Way

  "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Discovery

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• There's a power that brings us to things, and there's a power that lets us move away from things, from people, places, experiences. And what you learn to do in metaphysics is accept.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, People

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• You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Taken, Buddhism

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• Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.

  Carol Vorderman

  Thinking, Turning 50, Size

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• The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.

  Evangelos Venizelos

  Country, Greek, Majority

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• When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Errors, Democracies Have

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 330, 1977.

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• You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

  Kenny Wormald

  Able, Determined, Heard

  "Kenny Wormald Interview FOOTLOOSE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2011.

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• As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Mind

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• Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Kings, Yoga

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• Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Men, Giving, Advice

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• One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Two, Church Today

  Vance Havner (1967). “Living in Kingdom Come”

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• So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.192, Penguin

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• If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand something, it’s not defeat. It’s not even something he has to accept. It’s merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.

  Sarah Lacy

  Zuckerberg, Challenges, Needs

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

  Trent Lott

  Overcoming, Generations, May

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• I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.

  Holly Madison

  Makeup, People, Dresses

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• The black church will accept anybody.

  James McBride

  Black, Church, Black Church

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