Quotes by American Authors - Page 132

Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations cannot always be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.
Suzy Kassem
Visualization is a process when we try to see the imaginative creation as a real future manifestation.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
Unless we can predict the future, we shouldn't be worrying about things that haven't happened yet. We can place these thoughts in God's hands then let them go.
Ron Baratono
Like the weather or bonds between lovers,transformations can never be predicted.All energy transmutes one day or another,in one way or another. Either in its form or composition. Or in its position or disposition.
Suzy Kassem
Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision.
J.R. Rim
The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
Shannon L. Alder
If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.
Robin Hobb
We write our personal story as intermittent authors; the narrator is always searching for a unitive point of view. We strive to perceive oneself from a unified perspective, but it is virtually impossible to do so. Human perception of the self is an illusion. We constantly sift through shifting memories. We experience the present under the fragrance cast by the past and under the illusionary aura of the future.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
If we’ve somehow become convinced that the script we followed ‘yesterday’ can’t be edited, it will be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.
Martina Boone
The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Paco Fuentes," Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary.The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. "Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father never did finish my class and he flunked one of my tests, although I have a feeling your mother was the one who should have failed. But that just means I'll expect extra from you.
Simone Elkeles
My future was a blank slate and only I could write on it.
Carter Quinn
For us to change history, we first need to change the future.
Anthony Liccione
... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.
George Friedman
In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.
Dexter Palmer
We must learn to choose between lining our bank accounts and being accountable for our future.
Carlos Wallace
Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe.
Germany Kent
It's almost as if Kennedy grabbed a decade out of the 21st century," Cernan said, "and spliced it into the 1960s." That helps to explain why, as I wrote in 1993 in the preface of this book, we weren't entirely ready for Apollo, and why we have struggled to absorb its impact ever since it happened. How could the most futuristic thing humans have ever done be so far in the past?
Andrew Chaikin
People who have been there forever, left to their own devices, are rarely in the best position to design the future. It’s those who consciously listen to the constituents of the future who can understand which direction to move in.
Crystal Kadakia
You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you.
Nick Vujicic
I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.
Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way.
Kevin Brockmeier
People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.
Anthony Liccione
Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.
Anthony Liccione
Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.
Emily Henry
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
Gaylord Nelson
We all judge. But when I realize that judgmental thoughts and actions are merely my primitive nature trying to "protect" me from being one-upped or making sure I am not one-upped, it makes it easier to laugh at my silliness. �
Charles F. Glassman
When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.
Charles F. Glassman
Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there.
Charles F. Glassman
Music is the universal language, because it is the language of the universe.
Charles F. Glassman
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
Take Action: Success is not guaranteed but inaction will guaranty failure.
Ken Poirot
There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.
Idowu Koyenikan
The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.
Idowu Koyenikan
Public Utility Commission (PUC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaints are rarely upheld. It is estimated that less than 5% of complaints are successful and that the actual number may be below 1% in some cases.
Steven Magee
Bring your dreams to reality. Believe in yourself. You know you have what it takes, to make your dreams come true. Start now and dedicate yourself to success. Shoot for the stars and make it happen.
Mark F. LaMoure
Bring your dreams to reality. Believe in yourself. You know you have what it takes to make your dreams come true. Start now and dedicate yourself for success. Shoot for the stars and make it happen.
Mark F. LaMoure
Become the master of your life. Be dedicated to becoming excellent at what you want. Persistence leads to achievement.
Mark F. LaMoure
You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen with devotion and dedication. You can do it.
Mark LaMoure
God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
True success is achieved by stretching oneself, learning to feel comfortable being uncomfortable.
Ken Poirot
Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.
Ken Poirot
The Six Steps to Success: 1) Define Success 2) Devise a Plan 3) Execute and Overcome Adversity 4) Measure Results with Key Metrics 5) Revise the Plan 6) Work Hard
Ken Poirot
At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this universal truth: the difference between success and failure is one more time.
Ken Poirot
Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. . The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
Be you. It's life's best offer to others.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
confident: have no fans... only flames.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
If you aren't practicing what you preach, how can, and why should, anyone trust you?
Kim Ha Campbell
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
Steven Pressfield
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
Aberjhani
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
Aberjhani
You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.
E.A. Bucchianeri
Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
Aberjhani
My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.
Laura Anderson Kurk
For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.
Helen Keller
Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")
Dennis Etchison
I don't create my images as visual equations to be solved, but rather, i create them as internal landscapes that the viewer can explore. I enjoy sharing the why behind the what, of my creations... but my way, isn't the only way, to experience them. There is no correct way to interpret them. Perception is reality and yours may be different from mine and that's okay.
Jaeda DeWalt