Maxwell Maltz Quotes
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
