"Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man."

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Source : Karen Hawkins (2010). “One Night in Scotland”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

Karen Hawkins

#Adversity Quotes #Winning Quotes #Men Quotes

“I'm ready to meet a nice man!”
“Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.”

Source : "Actor-director-producer Anthony Edwards". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. February 20, 2013.
“I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.”
“I always played like this, unpredictable.”
“I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad.Â As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour.Â Germany does not want war of any kind.Â Germany wants real and abiding peace.”
“Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.”
“My part had three lines. I said, You look wonderful, sir, three times. All my friends said, Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life. I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.”
“You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.”

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