Charles Fillmore Quotes

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Charles Fillmore

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Rest
  • Best

• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• People believe what they want to believe.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Him

• I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Young
  • Really
  • Will

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Win
  • Talent

• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Relationship
  • Dance
  • Learn

• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
  • Die
  • Fast

• Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Men
  • Children
  • Morning

• Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Things
  • Internet
  • Finding

• Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Change

• Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Always
  • Newspaper
  • Reporter

• Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

  

  Larry King
  • America
  • Today
  • Summer

• What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Women
  • Science
  • Engineering

• Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Future
  • Succeed

• I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Filmmaker

• Although I'm shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That's where most of my weight is.

  

  Eddie Alvarez

• People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Live
  • Energy

• For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Experience
  • Fun

• My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

  

  Nancy Mairs
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Act

• We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

  

  Charles Fillmore