Gail Sheehy Quotes
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
Quotes to Explore
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
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Material interests are not the only guiding light.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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Whenever you go through the length and breadth of our country... you see a long face: you will see the long face of an African woman because she's black, because she's poor.
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I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
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I think that's part of the fun for us: we love looking at movies through the filter of a specific character - characters who aren't the lead - and figuring out the film from their point of view.
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She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.
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It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.
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Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
