My Own Quotes - Page 29

• If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Clients, Lawyer, Ifs

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• I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Attitude, Ambition, Self

  Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.121, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.

  Anderson Silva

  Kids, Training, Rolling

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• I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.

  Heather King

  Home, Night, Ideas

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• For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to make my own reality more real for others, as part of an effort to transcend emotional danger. For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Emotional, Effort

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• I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

  Cammie McGovern

  Helping Someone, Might, Take Me

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• According
  to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the
  development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the
  happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being.
  Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to
  dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever
  obstacles we face.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Insecurity

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• As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Dream, Kids

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• All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

  Plato

  Ignorance, Knows

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• Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Stronger, Needs, Company

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• The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

  Herman Wouk

  Doors, Library, Found

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• I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Self, Fishing, Monsters

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• I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.

  Lily Cole

  Integrity, Believe, Thinking

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

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• The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Book, Ideas, Stories

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• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Pain, Husband, Childhood

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• My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

  Laozi

  Medicine, Mind, Taoism

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Believe, Forgive Me, Sloth

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• Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a lot of people, burn out every once in a while. What I have learned from my own experience is that there are two reasons for it to happen. It is that I am either physically tired or mentally tired. If either of these are the case, the wisest decision is to blow off practice. Blowing off practice is healthy. I didn't understand that until I was so burnt out that I wanted to make scrap material out of my single and my oars.

  Xeno Muller

  Tired, Blow, Thinking

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• I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Character, Inspire

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• Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Humorous, Hands

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• I did find some time to go to a record store and check out "Headstrong" actually in the racks. It was pretty cool; I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!

  Ashley Tisdale

  Mom, Cds, Sitting

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• I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Cutting, Climbing, Views

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.286, Penguin

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• Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I have found in my own experience that it is of no small benefit, when you lie in bed in the dark, to recall in imagination, one after another, the outlines of the form you have been studying." He often awoke to find his problems solved. Da Vinci would often stand silent and motionless before a painting for hours, without using his brush, as though waiting for spiritual guidance.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Spiritual, Lying, Dark

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• No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within.

  Horatio Dresser

  Life, Wise, World

  "The Power of Silence: An Interpretation of Life in Its Relation to Health and Happiness".

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• Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.

  Dorothy Day

  Love, Heart, Sacrifice

  "On Pilgrimage".

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