Daniel Carter Beard Quotes

A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.

Daniel Carter Beard

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• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Character
  • Lost
  • Suffering

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Real
  • Love

• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• Does it hurt?” He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. “Only when I laugh.” “I’ll try not to be funny.” “Epic fail, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Beautiful
  • Funny
  • Hurt

• When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Comedy
  • Pregnant
  • Sombrero

• We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in bars that they would be too scared to go into, and a world that they would never get to see. All of that is something really unusual and rare and kind of fascinating. And the only way to do that and to make it really worthwhile was that it had to be authentic. We dedicated a lot of time and energy to making that right and real. So we found basically the worst locations that we could.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.

  

  Yahtzee Croshaw
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Trade

• Faced with new realities, our systems have to transform — as the society has transformed. They have to learn to co-change (co-evolve) with their constantly changing environments. Thus, it is imperative that we understand what these transformations and new realities are. We have to grasp their implications for systems, and apply our understanding of these implications to the transformation of our systems. We need to learn how to recreate our systems, how to redesign them so that they will have a “goodness of fit” with the emerged new realities. No small task by any means!

  

  Bela H. Banathy
  • Realities
  • Transform
  • Environments

• Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Man
  • Pleasure
  • Fantasies

• Your priority in life should be a relationship with Christ, not an agenda for him.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Relationship
  • Christ
  • Priority

• Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

  

  Amber Denise Streeter
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Sing

• Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.

  

  F. David Peat
  • Epiphanies
  • Mystical Experiences
  • Synchronicities

• You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

  

  Richard Russo
  • Thoughts
  • Characters
  • Interested

• O Peterkin,” said I, in a tone of remonstrance, “how could you be so unkind as to waken me when I had just got to sleep? Shabby fellow!” “Just got to sleep, say you? You’ve been snoring like an apoplectic alderman for exactly two hours.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Tone
  • Fellow
  • Shabby

• When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Ability
  • Matters
  • Lacking

• It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Sin
  • Neighbour
  • Lacking

• A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.

  

  Daniel Carter Beard
  • Fellow
  • Lacking
  • Expects