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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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
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Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
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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.
