Paul J. Meyer Quotes
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
Quotes to Explore
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
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Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.
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Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.
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If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
