Paul J. Meyer Quotes
You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
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The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
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I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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I have a chip on my shoulder I pet every morning, a constant feeling like I have something to prove. Hearing that the canon can't be diversified, there's no room for more brown faces - that fueled my fire.
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It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.
