Edward Hallowell Quotes
I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
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I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.
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Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.
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Disgusting, ridiculous, when other people did it.
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Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die.
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A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.
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In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.
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I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.
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The bicycle kick is not easy to do.
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Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
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Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.
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Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.
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After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!
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It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.
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I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.
