Bob Parr Quotes
No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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Im always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then Im completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know Its just really remarkable.
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You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.
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For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
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Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
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That is when they become most vulnerable -- when they are on the run -- because they can't plan, they can't coordinate, they can't rehearse, and if you constantly keep them on the run, you can whittle them down instead of them whittling you down.
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You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.
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Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.
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There are different points of view about how to approach this experience of ultimate ecstasy, as some people describe it, or ultimate nirvana or ultimate fulfillment.
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The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.
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You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.
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It's time to penetrate and find somebody else if that's not the shot you're making or you're comfortable with. You have to know that.
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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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The way China is looking to boost consumer spending is astounding. They are going to boost the minimum wage by 13 percent a year every year for five years... I don't know if people realize how dramatic that is.
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No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.
