Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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When I'm driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I'm too lazy to organise a playlist.
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We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.
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Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.
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Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.
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Man can change his conditions by changing his words.
