Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

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• Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.

  

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• You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

  

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• Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

  

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• I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

  

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• I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

  

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• What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones

  

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• Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).

  

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• There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

  

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• Sourav's greatest strength is his mind. He is hardworking - not only in the nets but also mentally. He bounces back.

  

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• You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

  

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• For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

  

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• When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

  

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• Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.

  

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• To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

  

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• I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.

  

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• The breath is a powerful toolit creates a bridge between the subconscious and conscious mind, and connects the mind and the body. When you sit and breathe deeply, your physiology will change, and both your mind and your body will relax and become open. Breathing helps clear your head of the thoughts of the emotions and ego, and it allows you to get closer to your true self.

  

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• If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

  

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• The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

  

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• I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Conscious
  • Sickness
  • Gentlemen