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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Disgusting, ridiculous, when other people did it.
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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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Increased business sales would almost certainly raise the productive capacity of the economy by encouraging additional capital spending, especially if accompanied by reduced uncertainty about future prospects.
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A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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Steve set the tone for them and everyone else just followed.
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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.
