Wayne Dyer Quotes

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

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• I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Funny

• Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Know
  • Food
  • Surroundings

• Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Water
  • Spring

• Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

  

  Tara Brach
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  • Freedom
  • Courage

• Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Better
  • Tomorrow

• I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work
  • Evangelical

• I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mind
  • Loved
  • Kid

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

  

  Damien Chazelle
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  • Love
  • Energy

• You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Art
  • You
  • White

• On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
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  • Great
  • American

• I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Trying
  • Been
  • Washington

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
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  • Work
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• It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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  • Ideas
  • Humility

• I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Truth
  • Everyone
  • Define

• There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Business
  • Style
  • Star

• The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
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  • Sun

• Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Science
  • Literature
  • Ugly

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

  Ralph Peters
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  • Mistake

• The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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