Wallace D. Wattles Quotes

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.

Wallace D. Wattles

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• Failure
• inspirational
• Impossible
• Relation
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• Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Why
  • Food
  • Red

• Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Universe
  • Best
  • Always

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Book
  • Myself

• In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Done
  • Character
  • Guy

• I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Done
  • Education

• Our entire franchise has done everything in its power to put all of our players and its coaching staff in the best possible position to execute when it counts. And to deliver to the highly supportive fans of Cleveland a proud, intense, impassioned, all-out drive to achieve a championship.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Done
  • Power
  • Proud

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Perfume

• When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Friend
  • Day
  • Mom

• When you're wearing a motorcycle helmet, people don't know who you are. So I just wander around and, yeah, it's pretty awesome.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Know

• It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Art
  • Father
  • Child

• Artists need to express.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Need
  • Artists
  • Express

• W.H. Auden has gone in the right direction, and a great deal too far.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Great

• Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Society

• Of all the characters I've played, I think I have more in common with that guy than with Reilly: Ace of Spies', referring to Carl Fitzgerald in Death in Brunswick.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Guy
  • Death

• The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Universe

• Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

  

  David D. Burns
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Learning

• Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People

• I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.

  

  Wallace D. Wattles
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • inspirational