Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
Quotes to Explore
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
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There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
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I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.
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One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
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Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less abstract considerations.
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Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
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And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
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Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
