Caroline Myss Quotes

Become mindful that remaining in a conflict is a choice.

Caroline Myss

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• Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Thousand

• Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Smart

• They say women and music should never be dated.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Never

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Book
  • Happy
  • College

• I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Always
  • Never

• My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Philosophy

• There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Someone
  • Unpredictable

• At least I had that, one guy understood me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Understood

• I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Running

• A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Up
  • Listening

• The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

  

  David Eddings
  • Life
  • Up
  • Business

• I don't think it hurts to have rowing featured in a movie that's in the race for the best pictures. If it means someone might try the sport... then I'm really excited and happy about that.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Movie
  • Happy

• My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

  

  Bill Forsyth

• Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

  

  Lisa See
  • People
  • Family
  • Done

• I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Fear

• My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a poker player I didn't fundamentally like - even if they're screaming and they're acting like real jerks.

  

  James Woods
  • Live
  • Real
  • Game

• Polite beggary is too common.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Common
  • Polite
  • Beggary

• When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Quality
  • Decision

• Become mindful that remaining in a conflict is a choice.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Choices
  • Conflict