Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 10

• Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

  Alexander Pope

  Reality, Growth, Mars

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• No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever.

  Ivy Baker Priest

  Responsibility, World, Levers

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• You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.

  Peg Bracken

  One Day, May, Chance

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

  Daniel Schorr

  Military, Agency, Government

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• You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

  Klaus Kinski

  Wall, Ghetto, Leap

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

  Damian Lewis

  Quiet People, Fun, Emotional

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• The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday was the day of suffering and pain and agony. Saturday was the day of doubt and confusion and misery. But Easter, that Sunday, was the day of hope and joy and victory. You will face these three days over and over and over in your lifetime. And when you do, you’ll find yourself asking, as I did, three fundamental questions: Number one, what do I do in my days of pain? Two, how do I get through my days of doubt and confusion? Three, how do I get to the days of joy and victory? The answer is Easter.

  Rick Warren

  Friday, Jesus, Easter

  "Rick Warren Says Easter Brings Hope, Joy To Those Dealing With Loss" by Antonia Blumberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2014.

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• The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

  Ben Whishaw

  People, Looks, Cafes

  "Interview: Actor Ben Whishaw on 'Cloud Atlas' + Playing Q in 'Skyfall'". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. October 31, 2012.

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• I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Thinking, Guarantees That, Addiction

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• I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Guy, Musical, Kind

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• The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Trying, Way, Standing

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.509, Hachette UK

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• In those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.

  Gerard Way

  Fighting, Perfect, World

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• Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

  Daniel Handler

  Wisdom, Mistake, Bombs

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• When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Drifting Off, Goal, Mind

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• What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.

  David Ruelle

  Baby, Science, Curiosity

  David Ruelle (1993). “Chance and Chaos”, p.164, Princeton University Press

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• Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and being to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Gratitude, Exercise, Giving

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.69, e-artnow

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• In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Firsts, April, Determine

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• Learn how to program and play lots of games. If you find yourself capable of writing a game, someday you'll be capable of writing a really good game. My dad's a writer, and when you ask him how to learn to write, he says, "write." So basically, do it and keep doing it until you get good.

  Fred Haslam

  Dad, Writing, Games

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• Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally.... Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Emotional, Parent

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• If you don't do something special against Chris Evert you find yourself losing concentration after 35 shots.

  Julie Heldman

  Tennis, Special, Losing

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• Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

  Pete Townshend

  Dancing, Losing Yourself, Loses

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• Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

  Larry Speakes

  Hunting, President, Realizing

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• If you ever find yourself walking a mile in my shoes, I hope that you would be at least be given the same choice.

  Brittany Maynard

  Emotional, Shoes, Choices

  "My right to death with dignity at 29" by Brittany Maynard, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

  Romare Bearden

  Discovery, Horizon, Painting

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• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Literature, Nocturnal

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