Robert Zemeckis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
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We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.
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It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.
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I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
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We all work for the president, and we all will ultimately follow his direction.
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To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.
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When we say nasty things about other people, we’re really criticizing something in them that we don’t like in ourselves.
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When we see God through a fear-based lens, we end up with an inaccurate view of ourselves.
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When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.
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Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
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You write how you write, wherever you write.
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We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.
