Amazing Things Quotes

• Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

  Conan O'Brien

  Life, Inspiring, High School Graduation

  "Conan O'Brien's farewell has lasting impact" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. February 16, 2010.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Airplane, Thinking

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• The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.

  Stephen Covey

  Encouragement, Odds, Unbelievable

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Creativity, Self

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

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• Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Women, Hunting, Males

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Thinking, Years

  Interview With Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 1, 2007.

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• I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.

  Anna Kournikova

  People, Whole Life, Expected

  Interview with Lori Majewski, www.womenshealthmag.com.

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• I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

  Sasha Pieterse

  Reading, Light, Years

  "Tribeca Film Festival: Sasha Pieterse on 'G.B.F.' and 'Pretty Little Liars'". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. April 22, 2013.

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• Everything is unfolding perfectly. And as you relax and find ease in your attitude of trust, knowing that Well-Being is your birth-right, amazing things will happen. Things the likes of which you have not seen before.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

  "Big ideas". Interview With Alice Wignall, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2004.

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• One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.

  Ray William Johnson

  Thinking, Ideas, Internet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can do amazing things when people love you.

  Earl Lloyd

  Love You, People, Can Do

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• I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever.

  David Plotz

  Grateful, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

  Chita Rivera

  Body, Spirit, Good Things

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Silly, Technology

  "The Future of Computing Power (Fast, Cheap, and Invisible)" by Michio Kaku, bigthink.com.

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• Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

  Kim Harrison

  Smart, Odds, People

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• Remember, loving them is the powerful foundation for influencing those you want to help. ... As a companion to that love, trust them. In some cases it may seem difficult to trust, but find some way to trust them. The children of Father in Heaven can do amazing things when they feel trusted. Every child of God in mortality chose the Savior’s plan. Trust that given the opportunity, they will do so again.

  Richard G. Scott

  Powerful, Children, Father

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  There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Recovery, Dark

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

  Marianne Williamson

  Names, Imagine, Most Amazing

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 27, 2012

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• Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

  Joel Osteen

  Jesus, Memories, Years

  Joel Osteen (2010). “The Christmas Spirit: Memories of Family, Friends, and Faith”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

  Louis Moreau Gottschalk

  History, Historical, Variables

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