My Own Quotes - Page 11

• The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

  Bruce Chatwin

  Running, Children, Book

  Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.11, Penguin

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• First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Years, Feelings, Intuition

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• In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision--the precious rays of light shining from the throne.

  Ellen G. White

  Writing, Ideas, Light

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book II of III”, p.365, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.

  Jane Asher

  Mom, Cake, Taught

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• A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
  my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.

  Raul Hilberg

  Mistake, Percentages, Testimony

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• It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

  Alex Flinn

  Book, Age, Would Be

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• The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'

  Earl Weaver

  Horse, Dragons, Years

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• Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Real, Heart, Who I Am

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons

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• I can change the world with my own two hands

  Jack Johnson

  Hands, Two, World

  Song: With My Own Two Hands, Album: Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George, 2006

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• I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

  Dario Argento

  Luxury, Lucky, Able

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• My mind is a centre of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner in me; consequently in my own special world, of which I am the centre , it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.

  Thomas Troward

  Moving, Mean, Past

  "The Wisdom of Thomas Troward".

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• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  Samuel Dash

  Believe, Office, Political

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• I am now experiencing perfect health, abundant prosperity and complete and utter happiness. This is true because the world is full of charming people who now lovingly help me in every way. I am now coming into an innumerable company of angels. I am now living a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind. Because of my own increased health, wealth and happiness, I am now able to help others live a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind, my good - our good - is universal.

  Catherine Ponder

  Angel, Helping Others, Wealth And Happiness

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• If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Care, Conflict, Interest

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• I've had a tough time learning how to act like a Congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

  Joseph P. Kennedy III

  Tough Times, Today, Congressman

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• I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.

  Florence Welch

  Artist, Everyday Things, People

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• I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

  James Branch Cabell

  Literature, Feels, Asks

  James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.345, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own and finally, also without any counsel because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop.

  Maria Theresa

  Army, Waiting, Credit

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• I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Education, Scholarship, University

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• I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own.

  Mika

  Records, Obsessed, Soundtracks

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• During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

  Mika

  Kings, Fear, Writing

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• Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

  Michael Flatley

  Wife, Dancer, Form

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• Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.

  John Baillie

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

  Barry Zito

  Views, Mind, Pitching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I read your secrets to escape from my own.

  Frank Warren

  Secret

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