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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Love is the one wild card.
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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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Don't talk to people you don't want to talk to, and don't talk about stuff you don't want to talk about.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I've never felt limited by my circumstances, no matter what they were. Even when I was living in Iowa, it wasn't like I had big dreams, but it wasn't that I felt I couldn't have any. I always felt very capable.
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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.
