Jack Canfield Quotes
No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.
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I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
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I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.
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I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space. I got to say, though, with smartphones and instant upload of everything, our generation and definitely the next generation coming up, it's going to be hard to act a fool.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
