Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Take charge of your mind and begin to fill it with healthy, positive, and courageous thoughts.

Norman Vincent Peale

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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Country
  • Small
  • Author

• The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Future
  • Enjoy
  • Matter

• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Succeed
  • Russian

• Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Man
  • Know
  • Relationship

• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Live
  • Love
  • Home

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

  

  Larry David
  • She
  • Know
  • Woman

• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Feeling
  • Unique
  • Perception

• You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Home
  • Night
  • Nice

• I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Real
  • Value
  • Personality

• I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Think
  • Competition

• It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • World
  • Way
  • Strange

• Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Mind
  • Heaven
  • Literature

• Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • True
  • Self
  • Consequences

• When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Dying

• In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Song
  • Special
  • Land

• Take charge of your mind and begin to fill it with healthy, positive, and courageous thoughts.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Healthy