Nelson Searcy Quotes
Perspective is everything. If your “why” is big enough, you can deal with almost any “what.
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I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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It is easy to react if everything is going great.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
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Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.
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It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
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Perspective is everything. If your “why” is big enough, you can deal with almost any “what.
