Tied Quotes - Page 5

• If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

  Seth Godin

  Kids, Ideas, Way

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.53, Penguin

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• I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Average, Years

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• Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

  Jessica Valenti

  Character, Mean, Self Worth

  "She Who Dies With the Most 'Likes' Wins?" by Jessica Valenti, www.thenation.com. November 29, 2012.

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• The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sky, Tree, Soil

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.441, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

  Zhuangzi

  Death, Grief, Air

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• Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Wings, Hatred

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

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• Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Solitude, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.251, Modern Library

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• Even genius is tied to profit.

  Pindar

  Money, Genius, Profit

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I didn't have the problem some people do who say, "I don't know how to pray." I used the songs to communicate with God. . . . To me, songs were the telephone to heaven, and I tied up the line quite a bit.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Prayer, Boys

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• Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, People, Film

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• We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

  Tim Bishop

  Jobs, Thinking, Care

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• I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

  Annie Baker

  Tongue, Terrible, Consumed

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• It's funny, because Arrested Development is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called Quintuplets for a season for Fox, and this was while Arrested Development was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

  Andy Richter

  Different, Development, Way

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.avclub.com. March 29, 2003.

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• In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Modern Life, Liquid, Circumstances

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• The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

  Shakti Gawain

  Keys, Prosperity, States

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Creating True Prosperity”, p.7, New World Library

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• New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

  Patrice Pavis

  Writing, Plot, Stories

  Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.57, Routledge

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• Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'

  Gerry Spence

  Mother, Religious, Home

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.170, St. Martin's Press

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• And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.

  Don Altman

  Hurt, Self, Goal

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• People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.

  Marianne Williamson

  New Beginnings, Cities, People

  "This is Los Angeles: We Don’t Do the Same Old, Same Old Here" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

  Terry Southern

  Party, Rivers, Together

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• Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Spring, Law Of Attraction

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  Barney Ross

  Blue, Buoys, Standing Alone

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• I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.

  James Dean

  Arms, Behind My Back, Behinds

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• A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

  Cat Cora

  Mother, Children, Income

  "A Recipe for Fighting Child Malnutrition" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• There is some good news for John McCain. According to the latest polls, which came out today, John McCain has started to open up a lead over Barack Obama. This is true. Yeah. The USA Today poll has McCain ahead by ten points. The 'CBS News' poll has the two tied. And the MSNBC poll says that Obama won the election last week.

  Conan O'Brien

  Usa, Two, News

  "56 days - Jake Tapper on what women want" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 09, 2008.

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