Alfred Adler Quotes
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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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.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.
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One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the solar system as having not two but three zones.
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I was born where there were no enclosures.
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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
