Og Mandino Quotes
No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.
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I think the advent of things like YouTube have made it possible for creators to tell stories cheaply and efficiently and to have a built-in audience.
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My advice for raising daughters is to spend time with them doing things you both enjoy.
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If you are working in a publicly subsidized building, then you have a responsibility to deliver truly interesting, risky, innovative, even provocative work. Work that speaks to your audience in many resonant ways. The priority is less about the financial rewards.
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No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
