Amelia Earhart Quotes

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Amelia Earhart

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• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

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• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

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• In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

  

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• Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

  

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• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  

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• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

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• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  

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• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  

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• It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

  

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• Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

  

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• I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

  

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• I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

  

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• Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

  

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• In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

  

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• I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

  

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• But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

  

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• The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

  

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• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

  

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• In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

  

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• I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

  

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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

  

  Amelia Earhart
  • Decision
  • Act
  • Fears