Indiscretions can lead to great lessons.
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Indiscretions can lead to great lessons.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you are willing to a...
JULIEANNE O'CONNER When you make an embarrassing mistake, learn to let the memories be enough to let you laugh about it...
JULIEANNE O'CONNER It's your life and no one else cares as much about it as you should.
JULIEANNE O'CONNER When you seek first to develop relationships based on personal and human ground, you will surely gai...
JULIEANNE O'CONNER Creative solutions come at drastic times, if you open your mind to the possibilities. Free yourself ...
JULIEANNE O'CONNER Other people's criticisms about what you are capable of, have nothing to do with you.
JULIEANNE O'CONNER Never allow your reality to be influenced by another's listless view of you.
JULIEANNE O'CONNER Life will astound you when you give something a shot after being shot down.
JULIEANNE O'CONNER Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in...
SIMON SINEK My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professi...
ROBIN YOUNT I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the sa...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR It is beyond logic that we see the light.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR When it comes to happiness, why would anyone want to delay it?
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR In a world full of oddities, it’s how you outdo yourself within your own schizophrenia of abnormal...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Before you get a bad attitude by drawing recurring conclusions to new situation based on past experi...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Wasted tries, The many whys, Is it the soul of Compromise?
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JULIEANNE O'CONNOR When you make an embarrassing mistake, learn to let the memories be enough to let you laugh about it...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you're willing to ac...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Choose your path or others may choose it for you.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Sometimes life is unpredictable, as are people.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Often it takes more guts than skill to open doors. Once the doors get opened, then it's up to you.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Sometimes you have to "play the part" to become the part.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Stand strong in your value. That starts by knowing your value.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Anything is possible with laughter. If you can laugh out loud, especially at a life of mistakes, you...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR You are not for everybody, but you are for somebody.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life is full of surprises but you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Start there.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life's unpredictable path and length, should be enough to make you want to take a chance.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Triumphing over great difficulties can lead to great happiness.
STEPHEN RICHARDS We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislo...
HARRISON FORD You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, ac...
STEVE HARVEY Great losses are great lessons.
AMIT KALANTRI Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking less...
MUHAMMAD ALI Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Even small efforts done persistently can lead to great accomplishments.
JIM GENOVESE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes.
DAVE ANDERSON Lead by example so fiercely that your conviction is impossible to question.
JOEY COLEMAN Any of my indiscretions were with people, not actresses.
DARYL F. ZANUCK "Great quotes need to be repeated, powerful lessons can be learned by reading and pondering their wi...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.
HARRY DEAN STANTON When became citizens, we took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and laws and bear faith...
SRI SRINIVASAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body...
W.B. YEATS I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually...
KING TUFF I'm not going to say that a very young Charlie Weber is without his indiscretions. But not anymo...
CHARLIE WEBER I've learned a lot of life lessons from Lee Corso. One of those lessons is that great jobs rarely be...
MIKE TIRICO My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
NADIA COMANECI I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an ...
MAX VON ESSEN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.
BILL HYBELS Gerry Schoenfeld told me 'Les Parents Terribles' was not going to sell, even though we had K...
ROGER REES lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's...
ADAM MCKAY Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that n...
ZELDA LA GRANGE They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
ALEXANDER CANNON I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan ...
BARRY MCGEE One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think glob...
MIKE LOVE Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
PRINCE Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
SAKI [HECTOR HUGH MUNRO] Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
SAKI Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
POPE PAUL VI Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
SAKI Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
SAKI You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
MILTON BERLE You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
RIC KELLER Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and some...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disp...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York ...
MARCIA STRASSMAN The lessons of prudence have charms, And slighted, may lead to distress; But the man whom benevolenc...
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to th...
CHARLIE WATTS You decided to throw Laci and Conner away, dispose of them like they were just a piece of garbage.
SHARON ROCHA The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions. Suffice it to say, Ch...
HENRY HYDE The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions, ... Suffice it to say...
HENRY HYDE My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
ICE CUBE Hard times always lead to something great.
BETSEY JOHNSON As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the br...
RICHARD CARMONA Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and some...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise!
CHARLES WESLEY Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
ROBERT FROST To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of t...
LEONARD LAUDER 'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'
ELIZABETH KENNY Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
JACK KLUGMAN Who can forget the lessons, trouble teaches?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B'...
BOOBOO STEWART I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.
BRADLEY WIGGINS Om Asato maa sad-gamaya; tamaso maa jyotir-ga-maya; mrtyor-maa amrutam gamaya. Om Shaantih Shaantih...
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"I've always wanted to try those," he...
HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we sha...
DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu...
STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ...
P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!
JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable...
DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve...
P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion.
CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e...
JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev...
JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard...
R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer...
TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war.
TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ...
TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat...
TIM O'BRIEN