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“Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.”

People Knows Believe Doe Real Self Problem Bigs Happens Teach Forever Failing Needed Approach Opposites Strategy Solve Self Confidence Real Life Nerves

Author:Jack Welch

“The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.”

Needs Today Humanity Needed Theology Physical Science Encroachment Arts And Humanities

Author:Irving Babbitt

“[Penn Jillette] said, 'If a truck is barreling toward you, no amount of positiveness will stop it from hitting you.' I needed to hear that I didn't have to be enthusiastic all the time. Some days you just need to be in a bad mood.”

Ifs Needs Said Amount Needed Mood Hitting Truck Enthusiastic Bad Mood Positiveness

Author:Julia Sweeney

“What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.”

Self Trouble Needed Conquest Removal

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.”

Mind America Moving Grows Born Needed Somewhere Else Jamaica

Author:Ziggy Marley

“We are all on a collision course with ourselves. Inevitably, our existing habits will be counter-productive to achieving our bigger picture goals. To avoid the crash, we need to regularly review how we are doing things and make adjustments as needed.”

Needs Courses Goal Achieve Needed Habit Bigger Productive Reviews Crash Adjustment Collision Bigger Picture

Author:John Fairclough

“The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. ... It is possible to transform our heart...Not much time is needed...(the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service.”

Heart Whole Moments Nations Born Healing Consciousness Violence Needed Hatred Transformation Manifestation Collectives Vow Collective Consciousness

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Some wives have model husbands, I got one that needed remodeling.”

Wife Needed Husband Models Remodeling

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.”

Knows Way Want Play Might Spirit Too Much Needed Thinker Spoil Dave Holland Deep Thinker

Author:Miles Davis

“I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.”

Children Long Rooms Support Television Fine Needed Comfortable Chairs Apartment

Author:Albert Brooks

“I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.”

World Ends Running Order Social President Challenges Justice Needed Office Social Justice Conclusion Barriers Agendas Orthodoxy

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only established to care for the poor and the needy. For this reason, members of the Church have been instructed to personally store a year's supply of food, clothing, and, where possible, fuel. By following this counsel, most members will be prepared and able to care for themselves and their family members, and be able to share with others as may be needed.”

Years May Has Beens Reason Enough Care Able Church Poor Share Needed Members Prepared Following Stores Fuel Clothings Commodity Be Prepared Bishops Needy Family Members

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.”

Levels Needed Percent Machines Apathy Dedication

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“I needed two stitches after Alex kicked the boot at me. (on Ferguson)”

Two Needed England Boots Alex Stitches Ferguson

Author:David Beckham

“You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.”

Needed Basketball Rap Adderall

Author:Donald Glover

“Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.”

People Wonder Needed Drink Meetings Alcoholics Aa Meeting

Author:Chelsea Handler

“I got a vibrator that needed two nine volt batteries. What am I - R2D2? I don't know what to do with that.”

Knows Two Needed Nine Batteries Volt

Author:Chelsea Handler

“When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.”

Thinking Certain Games Felt Needed England West Improvement Dramatic Ham Chelsea West Ham

Author:Frank Lampard

“In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state - as if this state were fragile and needed protection - when in fact, it's too powerful already.”

Ifs Trying States Facts Individual Powerful Democracy Needed Protect Normal Protection Fragile Elites Turkeys

Author:Elif Safak

“Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I would just draw. So, I was sketching all the time and I realized that I needed some outlet, and then I found animation.”

Found Needed Draws Raised Lawyer I Realized Animation Outlets Sketching

Author:Kevin Munroe

“I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.”

Writing Actors Needed Pressure Dramatic Sane Flare Valve

Author:Marti Noxon

“I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.”

Firsts Hard Needed First Time Competition International I Realized Dancer Ballet

Author:Joan Chen

“My dressing room was right on the water, and I would climb out of my window and walk around on the roof, whenever I needed time to think, or whenever I couldn't get a scene together. My father even came out there on the roof with me. We just walked around and talked up there, just to get away from everything, and nobody could get to us there. I really do love that place very much. It holds a very deep-rooted place in my heart.”

Thinking Heart Together Father Water Walks Rooms Needed My Heart Scene Window Climbs Get Away Rooted Roof Dressings Very Deep Time To Think Dressing Rooms

Author:Angie Harmon

“I didn't want to be around anybody because it was just too much for my brain. But, as an actress, you hope you get those meaty roles that push you into the extremities of that psychology. I like doing independent films because there's more room for you to be creative, and the director allowed me to just go wherever I needed to go. It was emotional. I had to cry a lot.”

Want Film Rooms Brain Roles Creative Psychology Too Much Cry Emotional Needed Directors Independent Actresses Be Creative Independent Film Extremity

Author:Tinsel Korey

“I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.”

Knows Feels Fans Needed Contributing

Author:Teddy Pendergrass

“I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.”

Different Night Three Reading Middle Needed Phones Tales Cycling Middle Of The Night Insomniac Canterbury Canterbury Tales

Author:Rick Moody

“Anyway, if you needed something really dangerous, get a gun. It's easy, it's cheap, and it's the American way.”

Ifs Way Easy Dangerous Danger Needed Gun

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.”

Writing Needed Jokes Experience

Author:Howie Mandel

“I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.”

Evil Felt Needed Weapons

Author:Gordon Parks

“I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise'".”

“I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.”

Stars Needed Built

Author:LeAnn Rimes

“My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?”

Men Needs Years Humans Father Needed Dad Shots Block Meat Thirty Shields Bucks Thirty Years Hunk Choose Me

Author:Christopher Titus

“My father, never chooses me for anything. If you needed a kidney and I offered him mine, well, pfft. Well, he'd take it 'cos he was dying. It's not that he doesn't love me, 'cos he does. It's just that special kind of love that feels like neglect.”

Ifs Feels Wells Kind Doe Father Special Dying Mines Needed Neglect Kinds Of Love Kidneys Choose Me

Author:Christopher Titus

“When I arrived the players were talented, but did not obey the rules... Once they understood what they needed to, they could express themselves.”

Player Needed Understood Germany

Author:Otto Rehhagel

“From an early age, I was trying to get laughs, but it wasn't a conscious thing. I think I was about six months old when I first realized I needed friends in life and making people laugh worked for me. By nine months, I came out of my shell.”

People Thinking Trying Firsts Age Laughing Months Needed Six Conscious Nine Shells Six Months Making People Laugh Nine Months

Author:Arj Barker

“Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.”

Two Needed Bird Stones Killing Hated Phrases Two Birds

Author:Dana Gould

“If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.”

People Ifs Way Reason Poor Comedy Grew Needed Projects Grew Up Understood East Los Angeles

Author:Carlos Mencia

“Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.”

Ifs Long Done Government Today Interest Needed Institutions Starting Partners Stakes Things Done Starting A Business

Author:Naveen Jain

“Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.”

World Form Opportunity Chance Growing Up Growing Ready Needed Degrees India Prepared Changing The World Engineering Good Opportunity

Author:Naveen Jain

“When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. But now it's pretty clear that he's set out to control the visual history of the twentieth century.”

Home Found Clear Century Needed Bills Visuals Digital Gates Twentieth Century Plausible Picture Frames

Author:Philip Jones Griffiths

“I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.”

People Needed Cameras Photographer

Book:Lotte Jacobi

Source: Lotte Jacobi

“I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.”

Wanted New York Needed Photography Weapons Balls Kicks

Author:William Klein

“I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a societal and historical referent needed to be both safeguarded and illuminated....now photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort.”

Thinking Needed Photography Sells Historical Mediums Shock Subjective Always Believe Photojournalism

Author:Fred Ritchin

“I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of the image to give the viewer something they might not interpret or surmise, due to their educated way of looking at images, and reading them for their emotional, psychological, and/or sociological values. So I would start to interject these things that the photograph would not speak of and that I felt needed to be revealed, but that couldn't be revealed from just looking at an image.”

Way Giving Looks Might Values Reading Speak Felt My Own Emotional Needed Photograph Dues Psychological Educated Viewers Insert Sociological

Author:Lorna Simpson

“Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little ideas that creep up in your mind, often contain the germ of a much larger project. All great art wasn't born as great art. It first needed to be recognized by the artist him/herself. Through his or her belief in it, it became true.”

Mind Firsts Littles Art Important Ideas Self Artist Belief Born Needed Projects Great Art Assured Creeps Germs Pompous

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.”

War Form Order Fall Evil Force Enemy Divine Source Kings Needed Approach Opposites Strikes Circles Surrender I Have Learned Fleeing Divine Power Prussia

Book:Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

“A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.”

Needed Rivers Crosses Shore Discarded

Author:Gautama Buddha

“A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.”

Men Way Should Believe Needed Cheating Live Your Life Make Believe

Book:Ham On Rye

Source: Ham On Rye

“The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.”

Ideas Matter Culture Evil Jesus Christ Taught Needed Jesus Christ Transformation Kingdoms Kingdom Of God Corresponding

Author:Dallas Willard

“I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.”

Years Three Names Parent My Own Pay Responsibility Known Needed Bills Three Years Three Year Olds

Author:Corey Feldman

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