Elaine A. Cannon Quotes

Every burden on the back can become a gift in the hand.

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Change

• We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Smart
  • Leadership

• Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• Reading is a huge part of life.

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Part

• Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Crazy
  • Design

• By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Control
  • Now
  • Soviet

• I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Wish
  • Cool

• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Hole

• If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Music
  • You
  • Vine

• We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Power
  • Seen
  • Unstoppable

• God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Service
  • Voice

• Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • May
  • Person

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Perfect
  • Vision
  • Year

• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Faith

• We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • War
  • Human
  • Dumb

• Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Day
  • Effort
  • Gold

• Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Gods

• You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Body
  • Burn

• I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Children
  • Love
  • Hand

• Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Every burden on the back can become a gift in the hand.

  

  Elaine A. Cannon
  • Hand
  • Gift
  • Burden