"Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it."

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Source : Beverly Engel (2002). “The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing”, p.246, John Wiley & Sons

Beverly Engel

#Focus Quotes #Want Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of them - one of its distinguishing traits is the story's awareness of its own artifice, and how that awareness becomes part of the story. And if that's right, then I have no idea how I ever got lumped into postmodernism except that I believe, since I was first published, people just haven't quite known where else to put me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season”

Source : "Gerrard sounds clarion call", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2005.
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.”
“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
“Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.”

Source : "Sotomayor tells Sesame Street: ‘Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career’" by Kay Steiger, www.rawstory.com. November 9, 2012.
“I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.”

Source : Z Magazine, vol. 8, p. 32,
“Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.”
“My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations”

Source : Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing

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