Coming Back Quotes - Page 7

• Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Distance, Often Is, Roots

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• As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Life, Athlete, Thinking

  "Oscar De La Hoya says he has decided against a comeback" by Dan Rafael, abcnews.go.com. June 29, 2015.

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• The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, 'Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from me.' But you're just going to get silence coming back at you. The past doesn't pay. We pay. And we're all free to decide when we've had enough.

  Michael Hainey

  Taken, Mean, Past

  Michael Hainey (2013). “After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not nuclear physics. You always remember that. But if you write about sports long enough, you're constantly coming back to the point that something buoys people; something makes you feel better for having been there. Something of value is at work there...Something is hallowed here. I think that something is excellence.

  Tom Callahan

  Sports, Writing, Feel Better

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• I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Trying, Projects, Obvious

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

  William T. Vollmann

  Hunting, Fishing, Yards

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.

  Sylvia Earle

  Believe, Past, Years

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

  Sharon Jones

  People, Giving, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being gone for so long and coming back into the game, I'm the type of person to reinvent myself pretty often and I can adapt to pretty much whatever genre is popping at the moment.

  Tony Sunshine

  Genre Is, Games, Long

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.

  Ahmed Rashid

  People, Support, Population

  Source: progressive.org

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• It's just good that Detroit is coming back. I'm so happy it's coming back because it needs to come back. When I do my trips around the world, and I can be anywhere, but I always see somebody from Detroit or Chicago. Those guys are world travelers.

  Mike Tyson

  Guy, Chicago, Needs

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

  David Simon

  Running, Cities, Ideas

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• [The Theosophical Society] are ideologues in terms of the way they present the material. That's one of the reasons why, when they teach their courses, you only get a smidgen of stuff and you have to keep coming back every week. They won't do an overview. Because they're trying to bypass your conscious critical faculties by leaking the information slowly.

  Paul Laffoley

  Trying, Information, Stuff

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• [Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once, but he kept coming back.

  Paul Laffoley

  Buckminster Fuller, Three, Harvard

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I'm very, very excited because I'm just completing Episode 6 of Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders], which again I think is the best yet. And I'm loving it and it's not like work, it's not like a labor, I love doing it, and the boys are coming back and they're loving the scripts.

  Steven Knight

  Boys, Thinking, Scripts

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think the comfort of sneakers is really coming back. Everybody wants a cool pair of shoes, but they want to be comfortable.

  Fabolous

  Thinking, Shoes, Sneakers

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I've always been in a mindset where I can lose a K but still smile cuz I know it's coming back another day.

  Alex Jones

  Cuz, Another Day, Mindset

  Source: www.husng.com

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• I did some things to some people that was downright evil. Is it karma coming back to me - so much drama.

  Gucci Mane

  Karma, Drama, People

  "Song: "First Day Out Tha Feds" ("Everybody Looking")". 2016.

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• To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized religion. It makes me wonder if Jesus' first definition of the church as "two or three gathered in my name" is not still the best way.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Names, Two

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism.

  Catherine Camus

  Fall, Today, Communism

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• Music has always moved me really deeply, and it's always been more about that than about the desire to rebel or annoy people (although, I've had my moments of that as well). I think it was just years of maybe moving slightly away from it but always coming back to it as the thing that I'm best at.

  St. Lucia

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.

  Duncan Green

  Matter, Phrases, March

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Two, San Francisco, Track

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• The thing I wanted to focus on first was that I wanted to graduate, and (with me) coming back, I knew that I wanted another national championship. Another national championship is everyone's main goal, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't get ahead of ourselves. We've got Washington first, then we'll see what happens.

  Will Smith

  Games, Goal, Focus

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• The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.

  Sherry Lansing

  Successful, Differences, Sticks

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