Stuck Quotes - Page 25

• You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Buddhism, Mind

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• It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, People

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• My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me.

  Jaden Smith

  Dad, Lying, Gun

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

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• I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Ideas, Work Out

  "'Shiver' author Maggie Stiefvater ready to see her werewolves on the big screen" by Sabrina Weiss, www.mtv.com. October 23, 2009.

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• A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

  E. B. White

  Time, Writing, Men

  1975 Letter to Corona Macheiner, 11 Jun.

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• We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Destiny, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.

  Sabeer Bhatia

  Entrepreneur, Next, Good Company

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• Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Prayer, Confused, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.68, Moody Publishers

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• I am not here for me
  I am not here to promote my ego
  I am here to serve the Great Spirit
  To be a voice for those afraid to speak
  To be movement for those who are stuck
  I am here to reveal a mystery
  To learn something new about myself

  Holly Near

  Voice, Ego, Movement

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• My nickname is The Fonz. My sister Lori nicknamed me it when I was younger and it stuck.

  Nicole Appleton

  Nicknames, My Sister

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• I was proud, excited and a little frightened. It was all taking off so quickly…the more successful the boys were, the further away from me John felt. I was getting used to being a mum, but most of the time I felt like a single parent…it was hard not to feel frustrated with being stuck at home. I loved Julian, but I knew that if I hadn’t had him I could have seen much more of John and that was hard…I felt shut off from the life he was living. After years at his side, I was excluded, just as it was all happening.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Home, Successful, Boys

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• I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Believe, Mind

  "Sheryl Swoopes' finishing move". Interview with Adena Andrews, www.espn.com. June 20, 2011.

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• An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

  Robbie Fowler

  Careers, Flattering

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists, so proud of the regime they constructed, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the army and half of the state on their side. On the other hand there are the conventional traditionalist, so infatuated with the Ottoman past, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the general public and the remaining half of the state on their side.

  Elif Safak

  Army, Past, Hands

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• The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Land, Soul, Hunters

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• My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

  Malin Akerman

  Requirements, Ruts, Life Is

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

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• The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.

  A. O. Scott

  Running, Book, Tears

  "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.

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• As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual maturity. It basically guarantees that a Christian will remain stuck in spiritual infancy. And worse, it paints a picture of God that is not only untrue but also unbiblical. It cheapens the gift of salvation – the gift of grace – and make God look like a finicky human.

  Will Davis

  Christian, Spiritual, Growing Up

  Will Davis (2011). “10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them”, p.150, Revell

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• Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dance, Beach

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 13, 2012

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• A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, People, Office

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Mar 27, 2012

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• I was stuck for 16 months without a win there, and now I've had five this year. Once you break that barrier for yourself it makes it easier; you're not thinking about it... It opened up the floodgate for me.

  Kelly Slater

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

  Marty Meehan

  Senior, Drug, Confusing

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• What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together - in misery, but happy to not be apart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sex, Fighting, Bad Relationship

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2006.

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• Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Sex, Psychics, People

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.272, Faber & Faber

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• It's like pouring oil from one glass to another down a line - in the end, you don't have any oil left; it is all stuck to the inside of the glasses. This way, 1,000 dollars become 100 dollars by the time it reaches the people. Whereas if we get 10 dollars, we add our effort to it and the money multiplies.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Glasses, Oil, People

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