Over You Quotes - Page 13

• The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

  Robert Pozen

  Night, Phones, Two

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• The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

  Adam Baldwin

  Mean, Keys, Careers

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• I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

  Janice Dickinson

  Cameras, Magazines, Speak

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• Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

  Marla Gibbs

  Mind, Realizing, Ability To Change

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• I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Graves

  Song: Masters Of War

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• These boots were made for walking, that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Boots, Made, These Days

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• You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

  Tanya Tucker

  Inspirational, Running, Helping

  Song: Can't Run From Yourself

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• You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Flower, Rejection

  Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

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• You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Dark, Fire

  "Michael Cunningham: A life in writing" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Roles, Weight

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• I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Thinking, Stories, Ruthless

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.

  Terry Gross

  Lying, Character, Actors

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• It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

  Rachel Johnson

  Self, Snarling, Chalk

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• Pause and remember - Stop mentally abusing yourself. Stop agonizing over your past mistakes and worrying about the future. Life is hard enough without the added fear, panic and anxiety. Your soul is crying out for love and encouragement. Take a moment to breathe deep, get present and find some compassion for yourself. Then, go out and treat yourself right; pamper yourself and take care of your needs. You are worth it!

  Jennifer Young

  Encouragement, Mistake, Past

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• To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Faces, Would Be

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• A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have any intrinsic power, but because your fear immobilizes you and makes you do a bad job.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, People, Minors

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• When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Tough

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• As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Two

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• May God preserve you and watch over you.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Watches, May, Preserves

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• Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Running, Failure

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• USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts. Exert more influence over your dreams by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Dream, Time, Leader

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• It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up - planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that’s all you need - and a lot of heart.

  Malcolm X

  Heart, Warrior, Sneakers

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Hero, Knights, Years

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.356, Macmillan

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• May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

  Frank R. Stockton

  Growing, May, Green

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• If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.

  John S. Watson

  Country, Practice, Focus

  "Chevron CEO: Governments - Not Oil Companies - Are Responsible For Finding 'A Better Solution' To Climate". Associated Press interview, thinkprogress.org. January 3, 2013.

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