Edwina Findley Quotes

I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.

Edwina Findley

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• Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Important
  • Literature

• I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hockey
  • Canada
  • Ice

• I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Ups And Downs

• There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Women
  • History
  • Vote

• There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Men
  • Help

• When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Differences
  • Out

• Never explain, never complain.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Never
  • Explain
  • Complain

• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • Theatre

• Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

  

  Tate Donovan
  • You
  • Know
  • Year

• I did not grow up singing Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Grow

• I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Family
  • Care

• Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Moral
  • Exercise
  • Discipline

• So the big, bad, and able-to-mind-control angel thinks you’re his. As in ‘I don’t share my woman.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Community
  • Peace
  • Moving

• See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Persons

• Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Music
  • Song
  • Drama

• ...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Sea

• The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Historical
  • Accounts
  • Bases

• Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Enemy
  • Intelligence
  • Adversaries

• Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Want
  • Attitude
  • Intelligence

• I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Playing

• I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.

  

  Edwina Findley
  • Clear
  • Steps
  • Needed