Wallace D. Wattles Quotes
Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.
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When we patch things up,They say a job well done.But when we ask the question whyWhere did the rips come from?,They say we are subversive,And extreme, of course.We are just trying to track a problem to its source.
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All the busy little creatureschasing out their destinies.Living in their poolsthey soon forget about the sea... - Natural Science (1980)
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In creating the silkpunk aesthetic, I was influenced by the ideas of W. Brian Arthur, who articulates a vision of technology as a language.
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I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.
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I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
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Are you ready to have your mind blown? Sometimes Ron Howard uses swear words.
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When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
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As an independent skeptical of all news stations and wanting to understand diverse perspectives, I tend to navigate between CNN, ABC, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, and yes, FOX.
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Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.
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I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.
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I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
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When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
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Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
