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«Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.»
Author: Philip Andrew Adams
| About:
Confidence,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
extraordinary, front, in front, risks, sit, sit in, telly, treat
«Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.»
«I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.»
Author: Walter Anderson
| Keywords:
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«People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Conviction
| Keywords:
create, looking, looking at, questions, road, sit, straight, straighter, walk
«Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| About:
Action,
Confidence,
Fear
| Keywords:
action, breeds, busied, busier, busiest, busy, busying, confidence, confidences, conquer, doubt, Going Home, go out, home, inaction, sit, sit by, think about
«I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion»
«Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
at home, companionship, home, lonely, meet, seek, sit, wait
«Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.»
«I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God,
Religion
| Keywords:
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«If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.»
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