Elsa Barker Quotes

I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

Elsa Barker

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• Lazy
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• Passive

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

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• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

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• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

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• People trash talk me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
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• Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

  

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  • Know
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• The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Society
  • Satisfied
  • Top

• But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Different
  • High

• Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Decisions
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
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• I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Think
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• People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'

  

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• What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.

  

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• I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.

  

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• Guys dropped their families and followed Him... When I read of Christ and the Apostles, I see mind control at work to an extent.

  

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• Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.

  

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  • Time
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• The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

  

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  • Mind
  • Progress
  • Human

• I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.

  

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  • Good
  • Wish

• I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

  

  Elsa Barker
  • Mind
  • Wish
  • Lazy