Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.
Quotes to Explore
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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I just write mechanical things.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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Things last either too long, or not long enough.
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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
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I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.
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I do get antsy if I haven't got lines to learn, a character to play. But yes, I do take holidays.
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'You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God' This canon is the mother of all canons against heresy; the causes of error are two; the ignorance of the will of God, and the ignorance or not sufficient consideration of his power.
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There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.
