Byron Katie Quotes

Everything happens for me, not to me.

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• If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • High
  • Practice
  • Walking

• The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Thought

• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  

  Larry Bird
  • World
  • American
  • Mean

• I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Love
  • Age
  • College

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Start
  • Brothers

• I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • People
  • Live
  • Advice

• I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Down
  • Lucky
  • Getting Older

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Nations
  • Mother`s
  • Wars

• I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • Person

• When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Different
  • Way
  • Opportunity

• I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Trust
  • Bank
  • Bitcoin

• I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • American
  • Reading

• I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
  • Myself
  • Baseball

• When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

  

  Rain
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Suffering

• When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • School
  • Business
  • Happy

• Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh no.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Die

• "Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Design
  • Spirit
  • Architecture

• Everything happens for me, not to me.

  

  Byron Katie