Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.
Quotes to Explore
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When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.
