Abraham J. Twerski Quotes
Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth and if we use adversity properly, we can grow through adversity.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
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Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.
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How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?
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The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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What a testing of character adversity is.
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In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.
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I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.
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Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
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Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth and if we use adversity properly, we can grow through adversity.
