Quotes 5701 till 5720 of 10501.
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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion - it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
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Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
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Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
Source: Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6] -
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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