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.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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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.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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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.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
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I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
