James Allen Quotes

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

James Allen

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Really
  • Inside
  • Matters

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • World
  • Best
  • Travel

• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Country
  • Place
  • Changes

• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • May
  • Day

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Education
  • First

• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Game
  • Care
  • Teammates

• Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Art
  • Business
  • Attention

• The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Art
  • Science

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Guy
  • Lie
  • Sure

• My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Age
  • Father

• Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Community
  • Mask

• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Taken
  • Child
  • Liberty

• You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • You
  • Evil
  • Meant To Be

• I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Great
  • God
  • Person

• A lot of people might think the job of a model isn't necessary anymore, but just like an actor, singer - how they make you feel a certain way - how watching a dancer gives you emotion, models can do the exact same thing to many different people.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • People
  • Different
  • Job

• You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

  

  James Allen
  • Great
  • Small
  • Desire