Jack Canfield Quotes
In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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Big banks, highly leveraged casinos, do whatever they can to keep the cost of their gambling as cheap as possible. This means keeping interest rates as cheap as possible.
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For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.
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In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
