My Way Quotes - Page 22

• I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you.

  Dave Matthews

  Way, Please, Appease

  "Song: 'Seek Up'". 2003.

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• I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Believe, Home, Balance

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• I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Talking, Want, Way

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• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Literature, Way, Nobel

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• Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Stars, Dark, Space

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.208, Seal Press

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• The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.

  Martin Puryear

  Hands, People, Together

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• I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Book, Ministry, Nonprofits

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• I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

  Ted Simon

  Firsts, Way, Easy

  Ted Simon (2007). “Jupiter's Travels”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

  A. S. Byatt

  Feelings, Mind, Different

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• If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

  Don Young

  Business, Tree, Way

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• Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

  Trisha Goddard

  Father, Nurse, Way

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• The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.

  Laozi

  Long Ago, Taoism, World

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• Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

  Karl Kraus

  Country, Ties, Patriotism

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• When I was born, God existed. But I never knew Him. I just never knew Him until Guru Maharaj Ji came into my life, till Guru Maharaj Ji came in my way, and showed me and revealed me that secret. And the day he did that, there it was, I knew God.

  Prem Rawat

  Secret, Way, Guru

  "And It Is Divine" Magazine, January 1973.

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• Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

  Kristin Davis

  Running, Thinking, Blonde

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• Love is only a dance.
  I'll try to apply myself
  And teach my heart how to sing.
  I'll go my way by myself
  Like a bird on the wing
  I'll face the unknown,
  I'll build a world of my own;
  No one knows better than
  I myself I'm by myself alone.

  Howard Dietz

  Love Is, Self Love, Way

  "Dancing in the dark".

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• The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

  Du Fu

  Giving, Solitude, World

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• If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Children, Book, Past

  John Kendrick Bangs (2014). “The Autobiography of Methuselah”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?

  Emanuel Celler

  Father, Wine, School

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• In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

  Jesse Ball

  Long, Trying, Way

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Sep 01, 2014

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• I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving - hopefully - a kind of throwaway chic

  Iris Apfel

  Fun, Lying, Thinking

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• I don’t care what people think…I learned a long time ago…I was 19 and had a very traumatic experience….and I learned that I have to go to bed with myself at night and that I have to please myself…and as long as I don’t go out of my way to offend anybody that I love, upset my mother or my husband…I’ll do my own thing. And if the public doesn’t like it, it’s their problem, not mine.

  Iris Apfel

  Mother, Husband, Night

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• I've been working my way to doing my first feature film for about ten years. So I went through the commercials route and some people come from a theatrical background and some people come from a writing background, but I directed commercials

  Duncan Jones

  Writing, Years, People

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• I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

  Nina Simone

  Strange Places, Way, Hours

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.

  McCoy Tyner

  Mind, Trying, Way

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