Marianne Williamson Quotes
I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.
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There are common-sense things that your government could do that would give Americans more opportunities to succeed. Why don’t we do it? Because powerful special interests and the tendency to put ideology ahead of political progress have led to gridlock in Congress.
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I could do a show with men; I'd love to do that, but it's women that I know and understand.
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I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.
