"Diminish the influence of fate"

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Source : Darin Strauss (2001). “Chang and Eng”, p.222, Penguin

Darin Strauss

#Fate Quotes #Influence Quotes

“I always feel at home doing a little bit of action.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youâ€™re falling to the floor crying thinking, â€œI am falling to the floor crying,â€ but thereâ€™s an element of the ridiculous to it â€” you knew it would happen and, even worse, while youâ€™re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didnâ€™t paint it very well.”
“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.”
“There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.”
“The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.”
“[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the veteran cannot make the novice see with his eyes; so that what carries conviction to the one may make no appeal to the other. This fact does not always seem to be sufficiently recognized by geologists at large.”
“And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.”
“I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.”

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