Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

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• Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Pay
  • Well

• When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

  

  Billy Bob Thornton
  • People
  • Good
  • Soul

• I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

  

  Louis Navellier
  • Stock

• I don't follow what everybody else does.

  

  Donald Byrd

• I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • World
  • Help
  • Small

• With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
  • Up

• Denim should always be comfortable; jeans should protect you. They are workwear.

  

  Freja Beha Erichsen

• Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

  

  James Dean
  • Trust

• Americans are in need of an all-of-the-above energy approach, and when you think about all-of-the-above, you think about wind, solar, hydrogen, think about all those groovy technologies I really like.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • Energy
  • Wind

• I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Time
  • Mind
  • True

• After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

  

  David Petraeus

• I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Kitchen

• When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments.' But 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' is essentially a documentary about Jesus. It made me aware of how real life and personal experience can create more breathtaking, sensitive cinema than more sophisticated techniques.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Parent
  • No Matter
  • Sacrifices

• The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Right
  • Questions
  • Answers

• No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Fire

• The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always NOW!

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Present

• I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

  

  Daniel Snyder
  • Winning
  • Wealth
  • Desperate

• It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Style
  • Connect
  • No Matter

• If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard pressed man, with his back against the wall, finally unearths the researches of another mathematician B as the locus of the application of his own results. If next B is plagued with a similar question, he will refer to another mathematician C. After a few steps of this kind we find ourselves referred back to the researches of A, and in this way the chain closes.

  

  Alfred Tarski
  • Work
  • Mathematician
  • Researches

• Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

  

  Steve Earle
  • World
  • Form
  • Islam

• Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

  

  Stephen Kinzer
  • Deals
  • Leaders
  • Collapse

• Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • No Matter
  • Raise
  • Possibilitarian