Earl Nightingale Quotes
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Quotes to Explore
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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I always have issues with trust.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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Smarter is always the answer.
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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
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Be yourself. And every person is unique.
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The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only to yourself. There’s always someone else. Even when there is no one.
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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
