Anthony de Mello Quotes

The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.

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• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • American
  • Culture
  • New

• Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

  

  Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Know
  • Color
  • Voice

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
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• When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'

  

  Dana Perino
  • Money
  • You
  • United States

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Up
  • Effort

• I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • American
  • Truck
  • Drive

• Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Friends
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  • Libertarian

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
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• The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I'll always be a fan of ol' stray dogs and guitars playin'.One room churches, back road walks and front porch swingin'.Sunset skies, bonfire nights, I love the simple things.That's how I'll always be.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Simple
  • Road
  • Sunset

• The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Art

• We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
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• I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.

  

  Alan Greenspan

• You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Time

• I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Live
  • Day
  • Questions

• And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • Present

• As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.

  

  Hart Bochner
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Satisfaction

• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  

  Earl Long
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Voting

• The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Brain

• The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.

  

  Anthony de Mello