Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Norman Vincent Peale

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Man

• There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • World
  • Trying
  • Book

• I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • American
  • India

• In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Character
  • Small
  • Yourself

• There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Live
  • You
  • Crying

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • World
  • Young

• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Families

• No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Beauty
  • Mountains
  • Corner

• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Nation

• I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Baby

• The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Beautiful

• When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

  

  Linus Roache
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.

  

  Amit Abraham
  • Desire
  • Attitude
  • motivation

• Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Age
  • Architecture
  • Function

• It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Different
  • Feeling

• The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Existence