My Own Quotes - Page 26

• I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

  John Wanamaker

  Motivational, Years, Overcoming

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• Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

  Antonin Artaud

  Tragedy, Enough, Stage

  "Memories For Tomorrow". Book by Jean-Louis Barrault, 1974.

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• I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

  Simon McBurney

  Thinking, Voice, Desire

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• All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

  Ben Jonson

  Speech, Harsh, Discourse

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.363

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• And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

  Eric Roberts

  Horse, Died

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• I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Miracle, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (1989). “The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, University of Missouri Press

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• What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.

  Lionel Blue

  Sorry, People, Evil

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• I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Blessed, Destiny

  "Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story". Book by A. E. Hotchner, 1979.

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• When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Time, Variation, Opponents

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• From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

  Ella Maillart

  Wind, Desire, Tides

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• I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

  Shawn Colvin

  Guitar, Two, Singing

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• I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Power, Law Of Attraction, Mind

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• I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Luxury, Dollars

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• I jump 'em from other writers but I arrange 'em my own way.

  Blind Willie McTell

  Ems, Way, Brilliant

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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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• Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.

  Nick Flynn

  Father, Moving, Men

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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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• My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Views, Preparation, Sides

  "Jonny Wilkinson's autobiography reveals him to be a tortured soul" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2011.

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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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• It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.

  Paul Cornell

  Share

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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• In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity. The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured up—although a few of them are—because there’s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!—but it’s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both children’s books and the collection of people who make them.

  Paul O. Zelinsky

  Children, Fun, Nice

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• I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

  Eric Avery

  Bucks, Way, Firsts

  "Eric Avery joins Addiction for NME Awards" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2008.

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