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.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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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.
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I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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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.
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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.
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
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When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.
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Never explain, never complain.
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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.
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Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
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I did not grow up singing Yiddish.
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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.
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Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.
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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.
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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.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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...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")
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I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.
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Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
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What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?
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If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.
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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.
