Barbara O'Neal Quotes
That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.
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During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.
