Charles Dickens Quotes

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Charles Dickens

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• Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

  

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• I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

  

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• Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

  

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• Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

  

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• I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.

  

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• Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?

  

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• We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

  

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• To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

  

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• The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.

  

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• You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

  

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• Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.

  

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• We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

  

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• [Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.

  

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• False teachers invite people to come to the Master's table because of what's on it, not because they love the Master.

  

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• The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

  

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• My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

  

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• I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.

  

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• Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Master
  • Guide
  • Affections