Fortunate Quotes - Page 37

• To take pressure off myself, I realize how fortunate I am to be playing a sport for a living. If I take that mentality onto the court, there shouldn't be any pressure because I'm already fortunate to do what I do.

  John Isner

  Sports, Pressure, Realizing

  Source: espn.go.com

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• The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

  Dominick Dunne

  Powerful, Writing, Rich

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• I am fortunate to have access to an array support and services, and I certainly could not do my job without them. But sadly, not everyone has access to the same resources.

  James Langevin

  Jobs, Support, Resources

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• Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Events, May, Showers

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• The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Ocean, Heart, Wave Of Life

  "Love and God". Book by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1969.

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• I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.

  Mark Teixeira

  Sports, New York, Cake

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• I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Nba, Helping, Chance

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• I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Honesty, Wells, Has Beens

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• American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

  Bryan Burrough

  Support, Lucky, Fields

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• I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.

  James Nesbitt

  Never Forget, Forget

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

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• If I'm going through a hard part of my life, I just think about the fact I am living a dream. Alot of people aren't as fortunate to have their hobby-the thing they love to do most-as their job. I just think about that and I feel better.

  Mats Sundin

  Dream, Jobs, Feel Better

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• I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

  Joe Torre

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• I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

  Joe Torre

  Organization, Broken, Brave

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• I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. Im thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Country, Latin, Thinking

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• Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.

  Maria Popova

  Journey, Love Is, Leaving

  "When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships". www.brainpickings.org. April 6, 2015.

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• I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

  Charles Dickens

  Determination, Men, Order

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.356

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• When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.

  Dylan Lauren

  Fashion, Art, Pioneers

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• I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Growing Up, Rocks, Parent

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• In early 2008, it was confirmed that there would be an opportunity to build applications for the iPhone. We were fortunate enough to make the right call on that: to bet early, to put resources into it and have a pretty good application in the store at the moment when it opened.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Opportunity, Iphone, Would Be

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• How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Thinking, Leader

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• I don't believe that less fortunate people should have to wait until a movie is released on public TV for free, while richer people get to see it months in advance.

  Lexi Alexander

  Believe, Should Have, People

  Source: piratetimes.net

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• During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was hiring a different kind of brother, you know, and I was doing political humor... In order for me to really have a long career, I'm going to have to learn how to write and produce for myself... I had no idea I was really going to like it and I'm very fortunate to be successful. But the idea was to always eventually create something for myself. That was the idea from the beginning when I went into writing and producing.

  Larry Wilmore

  Brother, Writing, Successful

  "‘The Nightly Show’ host Larry Wilmore: ‘Has race been in the news lately?’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2015.

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• I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.

  Steve Reich

  Writing, Differences, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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• I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate.

  Nigel Godrich

  Play, People, Able

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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