My Own Quotes - Page 21

• As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Believe, People

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• It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.

  Noel Gallagher

  Christmas, London, Firsts

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• I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness.

  Michael Milken

  Energy, Illness, Lifestyle

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• Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.

  Buddy Rich

  Creativity, Done

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• No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

  Gloria Steinem

  Responsibility, Decision, Flags

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• Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Connections, Divinity, Divine

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• I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.

  Erykah Badu

  Giving, Balance, Energy

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• Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Goal, Expectations

  Dr. Phil McGraw (2003). “Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible.

  Arianna Huffington

  Daughter, Fear, Resilience

  'On Becoming Fearless,' by Arianna Huffington, abcnews.go.com. September 13, 2006.

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• My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

  Eve Ensler

  Commitment, Stories, Violence

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• I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

  Douglass North

  Airplane, 1960s, Aeroplanes

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• I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

  Dorothy Allison

  Meaningful, Pain, Opening Up

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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 want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

  Dith Pran

  Believe, House, Body

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• My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Ambition, Order

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• In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Smile, Girl, Dream

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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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 have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

  Daniel Tammet

  Office, Feelings, Style

  "A genius explains". Interview with Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.

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• I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Photography, Style, Photographer

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• With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

  Kenneth Noland

  Artist, Identity, Groups

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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've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.

  Kurt Busch

  Pockets, Drivers, Paid

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• And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.

  Niles Eldredge

  Reality, Ideas, Knowing

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• Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people who really, truly care about it, it's worthwhile to them for their own personal priorities that sound crazy to everyone else. Well, I write my own blog platform and I roast my own coffee.

  Marco Arment

  Crazy, Coffee, Writing

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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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