"Accepting Godâ€™s acceptance of me doesnâ€™t mean Iâ€™m going to stop trying. It means Iâ€™m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession."

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Steven Furtick

#Mean Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Trying Quotes

“As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures youâ€™ll ever make are those about you and your life. Â Iâ€™m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news. Â Donâ€™t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone elseâ€™s.”
“To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.”
“In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.”

Source : Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss (2013). “Treatise on Instrumentation”, p.302, Courier Corporation
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.”

Source : Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2003). “Challenge of Organizational Change: How Companies Experience It And Leaders Guide It”, p.373, Simon and Schuster
“My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.”
“I pull my eyelashes when I'm tired or thinking - it's a nervous thing.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.
“I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.”

Source : "Freddie Gibbs Talks Major Label Saga, "Str8 Killa," Rapping DJs & Rick Ross". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. July 30, 2010.

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