Where You Are Quotes - Page 2

• Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

  Richard Eberhart

  Heart, Feelings, Way

  "Poet Richard Eberhart Dies at Age 101". The Associated Press, www.today.com. June 12, 2005.

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• Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the outer, between your external circumstances at that moment - where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing - and your thoughts and feelings. Can you feel how painful it is to internally stand in opposition to what is? When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, War, Creating

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.63, New World Library

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• The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Humor, Opportunity

  John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

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• Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Thinking, Television, World

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• Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

  Donald Barthelme

  Success, Common, Achieve

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Growing Up, Teenager, Awkward

  "Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden Interview AIM HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2011.

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• People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

  Pat Benatar

  Life Changing, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1997.

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• A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Writing, Adventure

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what's happening as quickly as possible. You don't want to start the story by confusing the reader.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Space

  David Gerrold (2001). “Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, Writers Digest Books

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• Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.

  John Ortberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Facts

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• You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

  Amy Poehler

  Needs, Please

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• No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.

  Greg Peterson

  Garden, Thinking, Space

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• To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Teenage, Addiction, Drug

  "Republican Party Reptile". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1987.

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• Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Equality, Eggs, Womb

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• No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

  T. D. Jakes

  Promise, Earth, Matter

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2013

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• Cole, you stay right where you are. Miz has enough people at ringside tonight.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, People, Tonight

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• It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

  Gavin Bryars

  Talking, Peers, Paper

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

  Darrell Huff

  Emotional, Dangerous, Subjects

  Darrell Huff (1993). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Don't be concerned with how many followers you have, be concerned with where you are leading them.

  Kim Coles

  Followers, Concerned

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• A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

  Norah Jones

  Snapshots, Records

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• The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

  Paul Davies

  Dream, Real, Law

  "Dreams - the lucid experience". "All in the Mind" with Lynne Malcolm, www.abc.net.au. November 2, 2014.

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• Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

  Pete Rose

  Leadership, Sports, Running

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• Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Team, Hard Work

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