Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Quotes to Explore
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
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Fire, fear, foes! Awake!
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Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere.
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The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.
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Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.
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What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
