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“How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.”

Littles Christian Used Loses Wonder Holy Bored Heavenly Unusual Preacher Accustomed Solemn Sense Of Wonder

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.”

Humans Motivational Action Used Courses Causes Results Emotion Leader Destiny Our Lives Shapes Flow Thinker Can Not Power Of Words Human History Our Actions

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'”

Ifs Giving Motivational Today Used Levels Practice Player Tomorrow Percent Determine Give 100 Percent

Author:John Wooden

“The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.”

Used Understanding Used To Be Belonging Irrelevant Present Life Emote

Book:The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Source: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

“If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.”

Ifs Want Used Awareness Bird Yoga Infinite Karma Flying Cages Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.”

“Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the Lord, and yet to get as much as possible from Him. The prevailing thought today is of being used, as though that were the one thing that mattered. That my little rubber band should be stretched to the very limit seems all important. But this is not the Lord's mind. The Lord wants us to be used, yes; but what He is after is that we pour all we have, ourselves, to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.”

“That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.”

Used Women Married Mad

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.”

Wells Used Pressure Mma Under Pressure Ufc

Author:Paige VanZant

“Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.”

Used Expression Mercy Nostalgia Used To Be

Author:Marvin Gaye

“A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.”

Should Used Humorous Formal Algorithms

Author:David Gries

“Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.”

Self Used Enjoy Emotion Seeing Reflection Enjoy Life Self Reflection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.”

Years Running Remember Used Three Lifetime Explanation Frank Good And Bad Bad Day Good And Bad Days

Author:Tom Dreesen

“There is always pressure in this game and outside of it but as long as you control what you can control the pressure will be used to my advantage, like what the saying goes 'no pressure, no diamonds'.”

Long Used Games Advantage Pressure Mma Diamond No Pressure

Author:Joanne Calderwood

“My mentality is like a samurai they used to train every day, work on their technique to make themselves better, almost perfect, perfection is impossible but every day you get closer and that's what I want . Every day I want to get better than I was the day before. I want to use every second of my life, every time I have in my life to make me a better fighter. It's more than a job it's a way of living.”

Way Want Use Jobs Used Perfect Impossible Perfection Train Technique Fighter Get Better Mma Mentality Every Second Samurai Almost Perfect

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.”

Feels Trying Hard Facts Running Used Fighting Understood Hard Times Mma Running Away Dealing With It

Author:Rashad Evans

“I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."”

Giving Enough Used Fire Middle Percent Give Me Managers Boss Rope

Author:Ricky Gervais

“When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where the things that I was vehemently of pissed off about, I would end up loving them two years later. So I just tried to mellow out. Like there's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.”

Thinking Years Kind Art Two Ends Used Skins Patterns I Realized Silly Two Years Pissed Off Mellow Opinionated

Author:Joe Bradley

“Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.”

People Has Beens Used Ill Good Will Ill Will

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I was 16 or something crazy like that for a short period of time. So, the gym is quite familiar and I know what I'm doing there.”

Knows Body Used Crazy Periods Competition Work Out Familiar Gym Builder Body Builder

Author:Guy Pearce

“My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.”

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Author:Quincy Jones

“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.”

Knows Want Firsts Whole Used Actors Audience Comedy Imagine Week First Time Exciting Cameras Shock Rehearsal Chaotic Old Days Sitcom Stunning Minstrels

Author:William Shatner

“I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.”

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Author:William Shatner

“I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.”

Want Used Watches Come Up Bros Fetus

Author:Nick Offerman

“Nudity and sex scenes are two completely different things. Nudity you can kind of get used to, but not when there is movement and relating involved. The sex scenes are very uncomfortable because that's something to be protected, so you have a visceral reaction to not exploit that.”

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Author:Lucy Lawless

“Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.”

People Thinking Knows Wells States Helping Used Cities Talking Cold Stores Weather Miserable Miserable People Music City

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.”

Trying Used Used To Be Tone Brian

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.”

Ifs Wells Hands Would Be Used Fighting Church Deserve Holiness Acceptable Fatherland

Book:Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement

Source: Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement

“I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.”

Kids Used Mom Singing My Mom Noise Frustrated

Author:Tove Styrke

“I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.”

Years Used Saws Unusual Collecting Accessories Fleas Eyeglasses Flea Markets

Author:Iris Apfel

“I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.”

Character Used Killing Cheating

Author:David Hare

“I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.”

Thinking Way Kids Used Social Happenings Complaining Used To Be Social Work

Author:Diplo

“I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.”

Trying Mind Use Used Universe Figures Instruments Fascinating Telescopes

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.”

Play Used Break Morning Dad Instruments My Dad Clock Nuts Scream Cop

Author:Kamasi Washington

“You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?”

Ifs Today Remember Used Audience Taken Seeing Exciting Police Rising Arrested Wagons Paddy Scorpios

Author:John Waters

“I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and inhibited around people who had written books. They'd done things I wanted to do.”

People Thinking Way Book Done Wanted Used Written Baby Envy Shy Resentful

Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.”

Writing Firsts Two Done Play Used Night Song Process Studios Piano Hobbies

Author:Kate Bush

“In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.”

Hands Used Three Arms Canada Invited Robotics Nasa Specialists

Author:Marc Garneau

“The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.”

Success Used Mistake Used To Be Making Mistakes Reckless Daydreaming Obsessive Guessing Contradicting Exaggerating

Author:Selima Hill

“I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.”

People Self Used Imagination Used To Be Tempted Subjective My Imagination Inner Self Exterior

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.”

Together Used Stuff Materials Various Woods Clay

Author:Joe Fafard

“If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.”

Ifs Dream Used Energy Fear Risk Safe Available Pursue Live Life Your Dreams Rejection Avoiding Pursue Your Dreams

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.”

Used Steps Path Stones Construction Grandfather Cathedrals Great Grandfather

Book:Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.”

Used Force Understanding Term Technology Calling Critique Insufficient Calling Someone

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.”

Used Gay Shapes Used To Be Just Being Stigma Being Gay

Author:Bruce Vilanch

“Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.”

Ends School Used Hours High School Focused Saved Obsessed Microscopes Algae Microorganisms Microbiology

Author:Randy Schekman

“I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.”

Thinking Way Used Ambitious Adjectives Derogatory

Author:Clare Balding

“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.”

People Heart Soul Seems School Used Actors Acting Audience Player Performances Aim Moved Profession Ghost Used To Be Reviews Compliment Buried Stakes Crossroads

Author:David Mamet

“Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you”

Want Used Used To Be

Author:Ed Roland

“I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!”

Ifs Looks Play Used Mouths Instruments Pointing Ceilings Spit Trumpets Stunning

Author:Humphrey Lyttelton

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