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Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.”

People Mind Humans Important Liberty Accepting Starting Justify Reduction Free Society Starting Point Right To Life

Author:John Howard

“I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.”

Challenges Accepting Theory Climate Climate Change Global Warming Broads Predictions Gloomy

Author:John Howard

“I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.”

Ifs Literature Difficult Accepting Conflict Prize Outsiders Always Believe Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:Colin Wilson

“Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.”

Made Prayer Answers Accepting Gods Will Confession Petitions

Book:Works

Source: Works

“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?”

Inspirational Looks Guy Accepting Stupid Gold Shoes Medal Bronze Bronze Medal Gold Shoes

Author:Michael Johnson

“People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What is life all about?" I find that people are able to accept the teaching of the Gospel when it's presented to them in both a rational and positive way.”

People Way Believe Reason Bigs Able Answers Accepting Teaching Rational Existential What Is Life

Author:Jonathan Morris

“I accept all awards. I like them.”

Accepting Awards

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it's so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.”

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Author:Lars von Trier

“There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is.”

Accepting Knowing Partners

Author:Esther Perel

“Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day.”

People World Giving Should Littles Fighting Enjoy Accepting Destiny Streets Achieve Example Succeed Enjoy Life Defiance Proactive Life And Change

Author:Haifaa al-Mansour

“What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.”

Chance Accepting Angry Sorry Stranger Apology Second Chance No Second Chances

Author:James Clavell

“We can't spend all day trying to get the performance exactly right and you just have to accept that and move on and accept the medium that you're working in and you know, there's a beauty in working under constraints and limitations. I think a lot of great things can come out of that.”

Thinking Knows Trying Moving Accepting Performances Great Things Mediums Limitation Constraints

Author:Emily Deschanel

“I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.”

People Thinking Needs Persons Past Process Accepting Moved Damage Tunes Thought Process

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Seems Jobs Lines Accepting Months Six Seats Pants Six Months

Author:Robert Carlyle

“I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.”

Feels Firsts Young Responsibility Accepting Roles Fans Position Huge Models Actresses Role Models Attempting

Author:Anne Hathaway

“To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.”

Ifs Done Pay Accepting Crime Commit Absolution

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“Well I can tell you that for me generally speaking that I think things that I deal with are all to do with not accepting things, not excepting life on life's terms. My life becomes a lot easier when I'm willing to just accept. I don't have to like circumstances as they are, but I have to accept them and that's where I always seem to get thrown, when I try to will my way instead of accept things the way they are.”

Thinking Way Trying Wells I Can Seems Term Deals Accepting Willing Circumstances Easier My Way Thrown Accepting Things

Author:Matt Dillon

“I'm very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.”

Hands Effort Accepting Huge Compliment Insulted Introverted

Author:Michael Ian Black

“I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, "Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive." Things should be better.”

People Knows Needs Should Writing Trying Stuff Accepting Changed Normal Awful Hey Offensive Outraged Hey You

Author:Matt Taibbi

“I have a lot of girlfriends, but there's something that's so easy for me about hanging out with guys. It's fun, because I feel like they accept me right back, which is really nice.”

Feels Guy Fun Easy Accepting Nice Girlfriend Hanging Out Really Nice Accept Me

Author:Rashida Jones

“Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're trying to do. When you take the risk of expressing yourself in public, you have to open yourself to that possibility.”

People Trying Accepting Risk Possibility Helpless Express Yourself

Author:Michael Haneke

“For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.”

Way Wells Play Wanted Jobs Difficult Acting Accepting Careers Habit Directors Theater My Way Aspiration Default

Author:James Cromwell

“Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.”

Reality Accepting Gone Old Days

Author:Ava DuVernay

“I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.”

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Author:Anne Rice

“Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.”

Whole Stories Accepting Intellectual Philosophical Preparation Obsessed Refusal Victor's Preparation For Death

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons.”

Feels Littles Ideas Bits Mistake Accepting Industry Little Bit Appreciate Making Mistakes Modeling Icons Modeling Industry

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.”

Thinking Art Order Accepting Lows Who You Are Unbelievable Great Art Unbelievable Things Get Low

Author:Damien Hirst

“It's kind of amazing; I don't know anything. It's an interesting way to work where you're living in the moment and making decisions for your character in the moment. You have to go with your gut on everything - try not to over-think things. That tends to make me doubt what I did, but then that's always the case. I'm a worrier. I have to accept that and just be a worrier.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Kind Moments Character Decision Interesting Accepting Cases Doubt Guts Live In The Moment Making Decisions Interesting Ways

Author:Evan Peters

“I have come to accept that I'm a very spiritual person. However, it's interesting because part of me shies away from admitting that because I think that comes with assumptions. I think, when I was younger, I used to make judgments about people who were super spiritual. And I think it's a very personal subject.”

People Thinking Persons Spiritual Used Interesting Accepting Subjects Judgment Assumption Admitting

Author:Erin Davie

“How did we go - in a relatively short amount of time - from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know how that happened. Like did we all collectively slip and hit our heads as a society? Why are we accepting garbage as nourishment? I don't know what's going on.”

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Author:Laura Benanti

“I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept. I know that there is, in theory, a glass ceiling. But I don't believe that it's a solid wall. I'm going through it. Nothing's stopping me. Yes, there are these preconceived notions; yes, we have challenges. Let's accept them, let's not be afraid of them, let's break through them.”

Knows Believe I Believe Challenges Accepting Break Theory Wall Notion Don't Believe Glasses Limitation Stopping Ceilings Break Through Preconceived Notions Glass Ceiling

Author:Debbi Fields

“Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."”

Firsts House Chance Accepting Novel Willing Publishing Take A Chance Manuscripts Publishing House Slush

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I think the most difficult thing about coming out is just getting to that place where you're comfortable with who you are and you're sayin' hey this is ok and just accepting yourself and not caring what other people think. Because if you don't have that confidence in who you are then, if things don't go the way you wish that they will, you know if people aren't accepting then they can easily tear you down if you're not prepared and comfortable with who you are.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“As a comedian I don't think they look at me as a sexual person but I can see where with actors it would be a little difficult for them because its part of their mystique, it gives them an easier time to change characters and people aren't going oh we have a gay actor, their gay so I don't know if I'm gunna buy this guy with this girl, its weird, I don't think it's fair; it's only done with us, it seems, like they just accept everyone as straight and go along with it and then its oh their gay and make a big deal out of it.”

“I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.”

“Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you look with open eyes at your actual life, it's always going to be the kind of long division problem that doesn't work out perfectly evenly. Poems let you accept the multiplicity and complexity of the actual, they let us navigate the unnavigable, insoluble parts of our individual fates and shared existence.”

Ifs Way Giving Looks Kind Long Problem Eye Individual Existence Known Accepting Fate Work Out Complexity Division Permission Navigate Multiplicity Unsure Open Eyes Actual Life

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Not being in touch with your vulnerability and not learning to own it and accept it and be comfortable with it leaves you in a position where you're liable to look at and judge other people for being vulnerable because they're reflecting that part of yourself that you're not comfortable with.”

People Looks Accepting Position Judging Comfortable Vulnerable Vulnerability Reflecting Liable

Author:Shakti Gawain

“I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.”

People Way Mind Shows Seems Would Be Felt Interesting Accepting Watches Stage Fool Interesting Ways

Author:Fiona Apple

“Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.”

People Perfect Accepting Streets Resources Corners Disappear Sandwiches Ingenious Street Corners Tuna

Author:Damon Albarn

“Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers.”

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Author:Alan Abel

“I don't accept that the new generation is looking for anything different than what we've always been looking for. Depending on the moment, they want bangers that make them crack their neck, they want tracks that put them in a zone where they can sit back and chill.”

Want Different Moments Accepting Generations Track Necks Zone Cracks Chill New Generation

Author:Rakim

“I always tell people, if a young girl read "Beloved" as her first novel, she'd have to kill either herself or her mother, because in "Beloved" you have a mother killing their children. This is not something a child would accept very easily. And would never understand.”

People Ifs Firsts Children Young Mother Girl Accepting Novel Killing Beloved

Author:Walter Mosley

“Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

“Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.”

Hate Jesus Heaven Accepting Grateful Forgiving Patient Gods Will Compassionate Mary Be Grateful Be Patient Jesus Love

Author:Mother Angelica

“Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.”

May Problem Responsibility Accepting Fate Perspective Ethics Gains Solve Appeals Personal Responsibility

Author:Noel Tichy

“I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.”

Accepting Principles Mathematics Accepted Physics

Author:Rene Descartes

“All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.”

Mind Self Healing Accepting Inner Peace Self Healing

Book:Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing: Easyread Edition

Source: Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing: Easyread Edition

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