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- See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation.
- Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
- There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.
- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
- To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...
- Joan Didion (1934 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
- I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
- Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
- I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
- Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973), O Magazine, October 2003
- My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.
- Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
- The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.
- Ann Richards
- Never regret something that once made you smile.
- Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
- Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.
- Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
- You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.
- Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
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