Quotes and Sayings About Inspirational
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His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.
-- William JoyceSource : William Joyce (2012). “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore: with audio recording”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
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When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.
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The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love best; when the best hockey is played... [The] enforcers don't play. Even mini-enforcers... remain on the bench. Teams and coaches can't afford anything stupid and unpredictable... With no one to fight back for them, players go harder into the corners, more determinedly to the front of the net. If they want to fire up the crowd and their teammates, they have to do it themselves. And in the playoffs, they do.
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My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
-- Kenneth G. Wilson -
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My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.
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A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.
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Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief.
-- Leslie WeatherheadSource : "Time for God".
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Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
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I’m terrified of heights, but I think there’s something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird’s-eye view of the world.
-- Lindy BoothSource : "The Super Lindy Booth". Interview with John Taylor, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 14, 2013.
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Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
-- Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins -
You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.
-- Louise Smith -
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
-- Lucan -
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It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.
-- Marcus MillerSource : Interview with Eva Simontacchi, www.jazzitalia.net. April 10, 2005.