Stripping Away Quotes

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  J. K. Rowling

  Failure, Mean, Stripping

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• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  Barbara Johnson

  Patience, Optimism, Gears

  Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell

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• I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

  J. K. Rowling

  Greatest Fear, Typewriters, Ideas

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Determination, Rocks

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• Die before you die and find that there is no death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Power Of Now, Stripping, New Earth

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.46, New World Library

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• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.46, New World Library

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• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

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• Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Failure, Energy, Finishing

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Responsibility, Wheels

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• Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fate, Talent, Caprice

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.

  Adyashanti

  Self, Inquiry, Answers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Struggle, Reality, Apples

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• The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Way, Tradition, Stripping

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lot of big studio films are created by formulas and committees, stripping away any individuality or personality from the work so that they could appeal to most everyone on there planet but to no one in particular.

  Signe Baumane

  Player, Personality, Individuality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

  Tiger Woods

  Hurt, Lying, People

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Race, Profound

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there.

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, Thinking, Covering

  Interview with Carolyn Roark, www.ecumenicajournal.org. February 16, 2016.

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• The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Passion, Government, Hatred

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• Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Able, Complacency

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.74, BookBaby

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• You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.

  Richard Avedon

  Real, Expression, Gestures

  "Avedon's Women" by Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 13, 2013.

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• Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

  Robert Duvall

  People, Acting, Bigger Than Life

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• Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

  Mark Twain

  Religion, Atheism, Impossible

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• Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.

  C.E. Murphy

  Uplifting, Leaving, Stripping

  C.E. Murphy (2010). “Truthseeker”, p.42, Del Rey

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• Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.

  Aleks Paunovic

  Ego, Want, Vulnerable

  "Watchtower Actor Aleks Paunovic: Getting out of his own way, and the importance of trying". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 21, 2015.

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