Charles Garfield Quotes
The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.
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Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.
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Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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You know, the key issue is that city issues are not to be put in a box and say well, that's what the mayor wants. They're Canadian issues. Cities account for 75 percent of our GDP. If you don't have a plan for cities, it means you don't have a plan for the economy.
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Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.
