"I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal . . . you hope for."

-- John Farrar

#Humility Quotes #Pride Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.”
“Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.”
“I love music; I was never the type of singer to say, "This is my specific genre, or I only sing R&B music." I feel like as a singer, you should be limitless and you shouldn't be stuck in a box.”

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“You don't have to be naked to be sexy.”
“The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.”
“Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.”
“Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.”
“You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.”

Source : "Actor-director Kevin Bacon". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2013.

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