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“I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.”

Wanted Given Sound Vision Industry Amount Woods Given Up Music Industry Cabins Oregon Cabin In The Woods

Author:Skylar Grey

“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”

Ifs Giving Years Hard Problem Running Kids Given Groups Minutes Giving Up Tests Math Seconds Given Up Math Problems

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.”

Given Born Adoption Given Up

Author:Dominique Moceanu

“You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.”

May Together Given Sin Sun Kings Gods Will Caves Given Up

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God's Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life.”

Source: The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace

“It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.”

Character Given Interesting Perception Dawn Hopeful Disappointed Yearning Given Up Momentary Interesting Characters

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me making strides, me making a commitment to myself to come in and get better showed people what I could do each year. From there, people started to believe in me, and the organization believed in me, and once that happened, it was on me to take this thing on.”

People Thinking Years Believe Given Careers Happened Commitment Organization Get Better Believe In Me Given Up Stride

Author:Mike Conley, Jr.

“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.”

Ifs Lost Given Interest Existence Arms Depends Congress Refuse Affected Given Up Militia Precarious

Author:Patrick Henry

“A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization of her place in the world as a woman. Or--what is even more hopeless and pathetic--it's an admission that she has given up, that she is beaten, and refuses longer to stand up to the world.”

World Seems Given Attitude Fashion Clothes Refuse Appearance Realization Hopeless Indifferent Beaten Pathetic Given Up Inferiority Places In The World Admission Perverseness

Author:Hortense Odlum

“One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.”

Want Fighting Hope Winning Lost Given Style Vanity Admiration Given Up

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Doe Opportunity Given Ready Giving Up Difficulty Perseverance Encounters Prime Given Up Keep Trying Prime Of Life

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.”

Ifs Years Whole Would Be Given Position Equal South South Africa Manhood Given Up Suffrage

Author:Jan Smuts

“During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.”

Wanted Given Struggle Anxious Given Up I Am What I Am

Book:Personal geography: almost an autobiography

Source: Personal geography: almost an autobiography

“The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.”

Men Doe Soul Whole Body Lying Given Senses Given Up Sloth

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.”

Needs Has Beens Real Form Names Given Given Up

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?”

Persons Whole Given Whole Life Worth It Given Up Is It Worth It

Author:Richard Bach

“I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'”

War Given Stars Acting Gone Fans Havens Given Up Gone Away

Author:Daniel Logan

“People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.”

People Given Music Is Piano Given Up Viruses

Author:Christian McKay

“You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.”

People World Should Believe Doe States Given Force I Believe Nations Community Decision Cities Havens Don't Believe Compromise Inferiors Given Up Defective

Author:Jeremiah Wright

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