Forget Everything Quotes

• F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Running, Fear, Two

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• I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Rainy Day, Learned Person, Tangled

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• You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.

  Rachel Bilson

  Rainy Day, Learned Person, Tangled

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• You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

  Steve Jobs

  Hero, Rainy Day, Learned Person

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

  James Victore

  Thinking, Enough, You Think You Know

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• Sometimes you definitely need to just let go. You need to sort of forget everything.

  Thea Gilmore

  Letting Go, Needs, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Childhood, Wicked

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.141

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• The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

  Georges Rouault

  Artist, Canvas, Theory

  "Stella Vespertina" by Georges Rouault, 1947.

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• One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Forget, Oneself

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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• Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid - after all, it's only a game - but it could enrich your life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Children, Stupid

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• Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, People, Investing

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• The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of young students lost their lives, and you could see bags and study material everywhere. Then you realize individual life, media, and the lives of the students are serving very different purposes. The lives of the students disappeared within the state propaganda, and very soon everybody will forget everything.

  Ai Weiwei

  School, Media, Earthquakes

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• I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

  Christopher Meloni

  Lines, Busy, These Days

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• To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.

  Edvard Grieg

  Beautiful, Thinking, Creating

  Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.24, Mel Bay Publications

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• Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Humble, Marijuana

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• There's a difference between dreaming and doing. The dreamers just sit around and moon about how wonderful it would be if only things were different. The years roll on and by and by they grow old and they forget everything, even about their dreams.

  May Robson

  Dream, Moon, Years

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• The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, People

  "Meditation and Its Methods".

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• You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

  Steve Wozniak

  Objectivity, Marketing, Needs

  Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith (2006). “IWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor”

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• Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dog, Borders, Genetics

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Aug 18, 2011

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• Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Writing, Information

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• Myself, I'm a pothead. It's no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else

  Method Man

  Secret, Goes On, Potheads

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• Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

  Bette Greene

  Giving, Want, Remember

  Bette Greene (1993). “Morning Is a Long Time Coming”, Laurel Leaf

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• Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

  John Cowper Powys

  Mind, May, Enough

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