Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.Elizabeth Lesser
Quotes to Explore
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
Barry Eisler -
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
Ville Valo HIM -
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
Eckhart Tolle -
People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
Nancy Gibbs -
When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.
Xavier Dolan -
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
Carl Lewis
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde -
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
Oscar Wilde -
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
Ernest Hemingway -
The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation. The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.
Albert Einstein -
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
Lao Tzu -
You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.
William Peter Blatty
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I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)
Adolf Hitler -
There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
Coco Chanel -
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
Victor Hugo -
When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
George Washington -
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
Homer
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I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
William Faulkner -
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.
Kathleen Rooney -
I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein -
My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
Eugenio Derbez -
Faith is not faith which is not tried.
Katharina Zell -
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.
Elizabeth Lesser