Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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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.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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The dominance of an ideology is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of dominant political discourse: this means that often they live even their revolt against domination of the system within the frame of reference of the dominant legitimacy.
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I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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That's really what drew me into wrestling. To see my own uncle put on the mask every Friday to go into the ring, and me putting on his masks to play wrestle with him. It was a whole different world when it came down to sports.
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True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
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Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going.
