Earl Nightingale Quotes
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Quotes to Explore
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.
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When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
