Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.
Quotes to Explore
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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My father is an amazing person.
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I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
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A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.
