Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.

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• Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Look

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Possible
  • Coincidences

• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Spring
  • Year

• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bad

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • Everything
  • Out
  • Sobriety

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Up
  • World
  • Place

• I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • Want
  • Like

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Weird
  • Creative
  • Intelligence

• I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Together

• At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Money
  • Age
  • Father

• If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Pain

• I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

  

  Jai Courtney
  • Guy

• I'm not a betting man.

  

  Kelly Jones

• The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • True

• Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feeling
  • Fear
  • Alone