James Allen Quotes
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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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.
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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.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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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.
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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.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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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.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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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.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
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You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
