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“I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.”

Ifs Want Looks I Can Today Next Waiting Week Tomorrow Absolutes Next Week Frenzy

Author:Buck Owens

“I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.”

Has Beens Ideas Might Wanted Found Waiting Months Absolutes Editors Hung Might Have Been Starvation Exhaustion

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had been invaded by time. But do you think you're free? I think I recognize the patterns of my nature. Bud do you think you're free? I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Self Waiting Taken Changed Wall Protect Absolutes Hunger Patterns Boundaries Costumes Bud Numbness Protect Yourself Erode

Author:Louise Glück

“If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.”

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

“Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of Cinderella so it seemed, it felt actually as though it hadn't been done for quite some time, not with the kind of lushness that we could do it with, with an absolute removal of the passivity of Cinderella and finding an amusing way, a lighthearted but significant way of making her proactive and not a girl who's life is about waiting for a bloke.”

Way Kind Done Character Life Is Girl Felt Waiting Clear Century Findings Evidence Absolutes Significant Versions 21st Century Amusing Removal Proactive Passivity Blokes

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God's view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life. They must exercise faith in believing God's estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.”

“On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.”

Years Kind Persons Two Soul Faces Form Suffering Dies Waiting Sacrifice Expression Hundred Absolutes Touching Fulfilled Melting Kinds Of Love Absolute Love

Book:True Love

Source: True Love

“You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way.”

Knows Way Waiting Perception Absolutes Haste

Book:Wallace D. Wattles Trilogy: The Science of Being Well, the Science of Getting Rich & the Science of Being Great

Source: Wallace D. Wattles Trilogy: The Science of Being Well, the Science of Getting Rich & the Science of Being Great

“Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.”

“If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.”

“Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Firsts Kind Two Ideas Done Shows Spirit Waiting Perfect Failing Absolutes Reputation Clarity Timidity Repeated Failure

Author:Robert Greene