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Related The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the te... TOM OSBORNE I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it's not the same financial su... ELLEN DEGENERES In your life time you will be criticized by others and they're opinion either to bring you down or m... MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and ... PAUL THEROUX Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness a... ANONYMOUS You are the architect of your life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk,... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - an... DAVID KNOPFLER You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... (If) you are depres... PHILIPPE STARCK Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu... WILLIAM BENNETT In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survi... JEFF PROBST If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don... ANN LANDERS When the odds are stacked against you, the only way to win is to be different. You have to go agains... BOB MACDONALD You create the flow, you are a leader, you go with the flow, you are a follower, if you are up again... APURVA GAGLANI If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't... ANN LANDERS The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business. PATRICIA CLARKSON You've power to change your mood instantly, no matter how bad it is. You will find hundred different... ARVIND MEHTA If you really want to be the best, you have to realize that just situations are against you, just be... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're si... JOAN RIVERS Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ... MARGARET MITCHELL Teachings, no matter the teacher, are only as valuable as they are applicable to growing you into yo... BRANDON A. TREAN If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote... JAY LEVINSON Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of wa... CHRIS GARDNER Focus on the sight, and feel of your daily activities Living in the moment can be a challenge if you... 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KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'... ADAM BRAUN Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it... BUDDHA No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.... JOSH MCDOWELL To clean your face thoroughly, even do a scrub, and let it sit and make sure your pores are clean be... SASHA PIETERSE You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You ... NAPOLEON HILL Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds... DONALD TRUMP You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life. ETHAN EMBRY Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Redirect your mind when it wanders. It is normal for your mind to wander, but in order to live in th... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write ... GENE STRATTON-PORTER If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own. WES "SCOOP" NISKER If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own WES NISKER Never change the person that you are just to fit in. You'll find your true friends that like you... NICOLE ANDERSON There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties,... SLOANE CROSLEY If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no ... ROBERT BADEN-POWELL You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing... HARRY STYLES This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale. You go into the woods to find you... KAT HOWARD Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewrit... SOURCE UNKNOWN You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you... ALAN ALDA If you consider honesty to be one of your values, then even if you are offered a good deal which wou... SUNDAY ADELAJA If the right doors are not opening for you, create your own opportunities because YOU possess the ke... ATTICA LUNDY When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us... MICHAEL LEBOEUF You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but... KRISTEN STEWART It’s your life—but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own stan... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No matter how powerful you are, if dharm is not on your side, you will lose ROHIT OMAR If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it. 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KELLY JONES If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race. OMAR EPPS Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompeten... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and h... EVE ENSLER Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. An... CHRISTINE QUINN It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull ... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your ... VERONICA ROTH If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden... JASON CALACANIS Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons... RICK RIORDAN If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, iso... SHARON SALZBERG Witchcraft isn't about picking up a book, and asking forgiveness.. or learning about spirituality th... CARLA VANKOUGHNETT If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your ... MATT BEVIN If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your sh... VIRGINIA POSTREL No matter what we face, put your total faith in God, and in time - not our time, but His time - He... LEX LUGER The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your... JIM FOWLER Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness a... ALFORD
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PHILLIPS So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who died a t... J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Our thoughtful observer who is outside th... J. B. PHILLIPS God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they ... J. B. PHILLIPS The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hid... J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Andrew the Apostle I would very earnestly ask you to check your conception of Christ, th... J. B. PHILLIPS Maundy Thursday There is joy and strength, of course, in this holy food and drink, but it is also... J. B. PHILLIPS One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". ... J. B. PHILLIPS Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through H... J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The preacher and the writer ma... J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 It is a singularl... J. B. PHILLIPS From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years: "If there is a God, why doesn'... J. B. PHILLIPS Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remem... J. B. PHILLIPS I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars. J. B. SMOOVE I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy K... J. B. SMOOVE The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man J. B. BOSSUET I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I&... J. B. SMOOVE But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of... J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 [The Christian] refus... J. B. PHILLIPS If New Testament Christianity is to reappear today with its power and joy and courage, men must reca... J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 To me the... J. B. PHILLIPS The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be ai... J. B. PHILLIPS I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels doe... J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Much of today's... J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres... J. B. PHILLIPS What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my witness to the... J. B. PHILLIPS Pentecost Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there i... J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Most Christians are affected far more than they know by... J. B. PHILLIPS It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the ... J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 God in His providence ha... J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 Following... J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 In his enthusiasm, ... J. B. PHILLIPS Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minut... J. B. SMOOVE I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious. J. B. SMOOVE A lot of critics have picked themselves to be Michelle's self-appointed guardians. We look at the po... B. J. WIE She is a very happy girl today. B. J. WIE We've handled her press, her P.R., and been her travel agent. At some time, she will be on her own. ... B. J. WIE She grew up playing against boys in Hawaii, so it's very natural to her. She's used to playing with ... B. J. WIE You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the ... J. B. SMOOVE Un défaut qui empêche les hommes d'agir, c'est de ne pas sentir de quoi ils sont capables. J. B. BOSSUET I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and se... J. B. SMOOVE It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty J. B. BOSSUET I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor... J. B. SMOOVE When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used t... J. B. SMOOVE I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the ... J. B. SMOOVE