Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 29

• If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

  Alvin Ailey

  Racism, Racist, World

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• The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment in order to see your dream fulfilled.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Heart, Order

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.

  Charles McGrath

  Character, Fate, Plot

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• As you warm to the ideas expressed in Total Recall, you find yourself reaching for your digital camera to record the moment just gone by.

  Donna Dubinsky

  Ideas, Cameras, Gone

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• Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream:
  Mistakes
  Delays
  Starting over
  Failure
  
  The building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired.

  Sark

  Dream, Mistake, Opposites

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• Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Art, Dying, Mirages

  Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), July 24, 2005.

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• Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.

  Ann Shulgin

  Simple, Long Ago, Attention

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's no entertainment here.

  Nikolay Davydenko

  Yawning, Tennis, World

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• When you don't have those types of things, fashion and all that stuff, it helps you find yourself because you don't have those things to rely on.

  Nick Cannon

  Fashion, Stuff, Helping

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• If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity)," or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age.

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Reading, Glasses

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• It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

  Keke Palmer

  Fun, Love You, Mean

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• If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.

  Neil Armstrong

  Who I Am, University, Knows

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• If you will move now, within the next three years the land you find yourself in will be producing great treasures. In the third year, the War of the Kingdoms will begin, and Kingdom will rise against kingdoms. The kingdoms of this world will also come into great conflict. I have a Kingdom that I am preparing. I will remember this Kingdom and the Seed and the Seed's seed of this Kingdom. I have a Kingdom that will triumph! Shout that the kingdoms of this earth are becoming My Kingdoms!

  Chuck Pierce

  War, Moving, Years

  "Chuck Pierce: Incredible Prophecy: 'Hear the Clock Ticking! You Have Been Catapulted Into the Three Years Ahead!'". www.elijahlist.com. September 27, 2013.

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• College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  College, Want, Findings

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• ​When suddenly you find yourself on the wrong highway, perhaps it's time for a new job, or some new friends. It's your life - live it.

  John Avery

  Jobs, New Job, New Friends

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• Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen the results that I've been getting, then you understand where I'm coming from. Playing in a football game is like being in 30-40 car accidents. You can find yourself in awkward positions. That stuff takes its toll. But if you take advantage of health care, balance your body back out, put it back where its supposed to be, you function better, and you recover faster.

  Emmitt Smith

  Football, Games, Car

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• Your heart, my friend, is the size of a stadium. If you try to fill it with small things - a new car, a vacation, a promotion at work, a bigger home, a stock portfolio - a mournful echo will fill your life. But if you fill your stadium with all of humanity and search for ways to make their lives better each day, you will find yourself in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way.

  Roy H. Williams

  Heart, Home, Vacation

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• When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are the target of police stops, interrogations, frisks, often for no reason other than their race. And, of course, this level of harassment sends a message to them, often at an early age: No matter who you are or what you do, you're going to find yourself behind bars one way or the other. This reinforces the sense that prison is part of their destiny, rather than a choice one makes.

  Michelle Alexander

  Destiny, Men, Race

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think sometimes you have to handle things delicately at work or at home. You know, you can find yourself in situations that are like opening a closet filled with bowling balls that are going to fall out of it, but if you handle things graciously, then that's not going to happen.

  David O. Russell

  Fall, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to take off the rose-colored glasses and view it in all facets, but I probably would be lying if I didn't say that probably the way in for a film with me is the performance. But I have been on juries where you have to give Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography. So you do have to put on several different hats and I try to broaden my scope. And what's great is, when you're in a room full of people who are not your milieu, so to speak, you find yourself speaking in a way that you do discover a slightly discerning eye.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Lying, Eye, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was young, I said to myself, "You've got to make the most of your life." It's all about taking risks. Push yourself to do as much exploration as possible. Find yourself. Because sometimes we think we've found ourselves, but it's only part of ourselves we've found. We haven't pushed ourselves far out there where we make mistakes and things don't work out, but at least we've discovered something. I felt that's what my life had to be.

  Robert Redford

  Mistake, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Today, everybody is always rushing. Designers have to make collections one after the other. Actresses have to make movies one after the other. They have to do all that in order to still be there - to still be out there. So to step away and be absent and to lose yourself completely and to really come back and find yourself again - that's something quite rare.

  Haider Ackermann

  Today, Designer, Losing Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you finally end something like Superman and then find yourself world-famous, it's pretty weird, lemme tell ya. Fame is weird, is what it really is. It's the weirdest thing in the world.

  Margot Kidder

  World, Fame

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Fairfield Porter who has been my model for art writing all along, said that if the most interesting thing about a work of art is its content, it's probably a failure. I think it's true that if you find yourself thinking about the meaning in an author's message, it's probably not very interesting as art. Obviously, this is a tough concept, because if you withdraw intention.

  David Salle

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that the gifts of the spirit are always subject to the control of the person who's exercising them. You're not forced in to doing it. Love never forces. And therefore 'the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet' is another way it is put. You don't suddenly find yourself taken over by a spirit and find yourself speaking tongues. You're in control, but it's a gift. You can stop and start as you please, but it's a way of communicating with God.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Taken, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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