Quotes by Speakers - Page 25

There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles
Judith Briles
Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.
Judith Briles
It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.
Gudjon Bergmann
The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Authors can alter your life.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Life only plants the seeds. It’s up to us to help them grow.
Gina Greenlee
There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.
John Dickson
I actually chafe at describing myself as masculine. For one thing, masculinity itself is such an expansive territory, encompassing boundaries of nationality, race, and class. Most importantly, individuals blaze their own trails across this landscape. And it’s hard for me to label the intricate matrix of my gender as simply masculine. To me, branding individual self-expression as simply feminine or masculine is like asking poets: Do you write in English or Spanish? The question leaves out the possibilities that the poetry is woven in Cantonese or Ladino, Swahili or Arabic. The question deals only with the system of language that the poet has been taught. It ignores the words each writer hauls up, hand over hand, from a common well. The music words make when finding themselves next to each other for the first time. The silences echoing in the space between ideas. The powerful winds of passion and belief that move the poet to write.
Leslie Feinberg
If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.
Richard Rohr
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
Bryant McGill
When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.
Bryant McGill
To reclaim our natural power and this birthright of real magic, we must get naked and face ourselves.The truth of Who You Really Are is vast. It is genius. It crackles with electricity and sensuality and other forbidden, dangerous things. You have longed for it all your life. You catch glimpses of it from the corner of your eye. A riff of music reminds you, a surge of ecstasy during sex brings you home, a crisp Autumn wind carries some long forgotten scent which thrills you for inexplicable reasons. A thousand tiny hints show up to seduce you awake and lead you back into your true nature, but they flee when you try to grasp them and leave you wondering if you were just imagining things. You weren’t though. This quality of richness and balance and home is Who You Really Are. That is the kingdom we seek and it waits for us to find it. It wants us to regain our rightful place.
Jacob Nordby
You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.
Eric Weiner
Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.
Eric Weiner
We must have clean air and water, and beautiful natural foods for everyone, everywhere.
Bryant McGill
Create and maintain a beautiful environment and surroundings in which to live.
Bryant McGill
If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.
Robert Anthony
If it feels as though life is screwing with you - it isn't. The world isn't 'against you'.It's simply showing you what you believe and giving you a chance to observe it and change it.
Dana Gore
It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status, and are considered inferior.
Bryant McGill
F-A-I-T-H The Fundamental Authority of Irrefutable Truth that assures confident Hope
Pamela Christian
Do not believe the road signs. There is no "one way." If it's your truth then it's the right way.
Bryant McGill
In my world, I believe in the great beauties, the highest of which, is love.
Bryant McGill
If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others.
Bryant McGill
Don’t believe everything you repeat in your mind!
Maddy Malhotra
That which can happen in your future is far better than whatever happened in your past.
Maddy Malhotra
Consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and involuntarily, willfully and unsuspectingly, our beliefs are the sum total of our lives. It's that simple.
Patty Houser
On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else.
Patty Houser
Our behaviors reflect what we believe. If we want to change our behavior, we have to change our beliefs.
Patty Houser
Nothing is as powerful as one's beliefs.
Patty Houser
I wish there wasn't such a division between people who believe certain things and people who don't. It seems vastly hypocritical on both ends, these two groups of people both claiming to believe in good things and yet willing to do bad things to each other for disagreeing.
Kevin Breel
No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance.
Bryant McGill
In (hyper-loyal) cultures, loyalty is so highly prized that it covers a multitude of leadership sins. I’ve seen numerous bad leaders cover their ineptitude by stressing the importance of loyalty over competence. They teach that loyalty is more important than excellence and they use that idea to distract the team from their own inability to perform.
Phil Cooke
In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.
Brian D. McLaren
We never have as great an opportunity to show self-comfort as when others around us aren’t. Hint: Don’t be a jerk because someone else is. Praise the behaviors in others that you most want to flourish.
Kare Anderson
A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.
Bryant McGill
If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
Susan Cain
…to own only a little talent…was an awful, plaguing thing….being only a little bit special meant you expected too much, most of the time.
Mary Robinson Reynolds
If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives.
Beau Sides
Strangers can be consequential when you want to practice an atrophied or unexplored facet of you, as they don’t know how you usually act.
Kare Anderson
To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.
E'yen A. Gardner
Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable with your imprisonment you feel free?
Bryant McGill
The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.
Krishnamurti
When you’re kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back—the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy’s Law.
Anne Lamott
Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort.
Gina Greenlee
Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.
Phil Cooke
You have got to get creative if you want anyone to notice your goddamn teenage angst.
Nic Sheff
Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just try to shoot for that, if I can.
Nic Sheff
It turns out that up to 35 percent of people with bipolar disorder also have ADHD.
Julie A. Fast
Burnout is a war that must be won on two fronts.
Jeanine Joy
In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can do the same with the causes and reality of dissociation and multiplicity.
Carolyn Spring
Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.
T.F. Hodge
If you commit yourself to living according to His Word your potential will be unlocked, and in time, what may look small now will grow into something significant.
Christine Caine
Your journey through life and self-discovery is much like the start of a new day. As you grow, develop, and reinvent yourself, the tendrils of light tear through the darkness of your untapped potential and uncharted territory. As you learn more, discover your life’s purpose, and establish a vision for your future, the light shines through on your true self.
Thomas Narofsky
You have more potential in you than you can possibly use up in an entire lifetime or even in several lifetimes. Stop making up excuses and believing in limits.
David Cameron Gikandi
Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.
Steve Maraboli
I have learned in my journey of faith that, the closer I am walking with God, the more likely the devil will be working to make me stumble.
Tracie Miles
Her people, the Half-Lights, were the by-blows of the full-blood Magicians and humans. As such, they were outcasts from both kingdoms. Their magic was too unpredictable for the magicians, and too magic - period - for the humans.
Susan Scott
Before she could touch him, he stepped back. "I've no need of a human."t"Half-Light," she corrected, still meeting his gaze in the surface. "I've no need of a dragon magician.
Susan Scott
The dragon marking rested, his fangs concealed and his eyes shut.t"Your dragon is pleased," she said.t"Indeed, he is.
Susan Scott
What pleasure is there in life without beauty?" Dulcie slid a silken blue fold down so her right hip bone showed, and nodded with approval.t"Beauty won't fill your belly or keep you warm."tDulcie chuckled. "You might be surprised.
Susan Scott