My Own Quotes - Page 26

• I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Responsibility, People, Action

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• There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players... Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Past, Player, Games

  "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

  Garry Kasparov

  Style, Chess, Symbiosis

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• Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

  Eric Clapton

  Loss, House, Obscurity

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• But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

  Linda Vester

  Nice, Sleep, Night

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• Now I’m floating like a butterfly
  Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
  I went from zero, to my own hero

  Katy Perry

  Zero, Hero, Butterfly

  Song: Roar

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• The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Light, Perfection, Doubt

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.77, Penguin

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• The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Kings, Philosophy, Wish

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.271, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.

  Lester Sumrall

  Skills, Giving, Doe

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• It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Risk, Important, Use

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• I went from zero to my own hero

  Katy Perry

  Zero, Hero

  Song: Roar

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• While I hold my own views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Real, Views, Issues

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• Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

  Kevin Smith

  Artist, Trying, Clerks

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• There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.

  Caroline Myss

  Responsibility, Long, Choices

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.257, Harmony

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• I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here.

  Ronald Reagan

  Land, Roots, America

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• I create easily and effortlessly when I let my thoughts come from the loving space of my own heart.

  Louise Hay

  Heart, Space, My Thoughts

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Sep 21, 2011

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• What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

  Pablo Picasso

  Ideas, Capture, Spite

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• If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sorrow, Rope, World

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Photography, Expression, I Can

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• I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

  Keith Jarrett

  Critics

  "Keith Jarrett, Part II: The Q&A". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. October 13, 2009.

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• If I'm home alone, I just dance... it's my own little secret.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Home, Secret, Littles

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• When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple.

  Jordana Brewster

  Makeup, Simple

  "Face Time | Jordana Brewster". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

  Richard Sherman

  Kind, Beats

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• I am in charge. I take my own power back.

  Louise Hay

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• As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

  Edward Ruscha

  Artist

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