Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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I like to discover new things.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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I've never been to a beach party before. We have gravel-pit parties in Alaska.
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There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.
