Philip James Bailey Quotes
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
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When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
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It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
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A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.
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Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.
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Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.
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Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
