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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.: Shakti Gawain
- More quotations on: [Faith]
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.: Denzel Washington (1954 - )
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.: Clementine Paddleford
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.: B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.: Erich Segal
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
The reverse side also has a reverse side.: Japanese Proverb
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I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.: Anonymous, French slogan
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.: Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
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To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.: Albert Guerard
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.: Gail Pool
Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.: Russell R. McIntyre
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
- More quotations on: [Passion]
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
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That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.: Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)