"How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?"

-- Alfie Kohn

#Trying Quotes #Energy Quotes #Spending Quotes

“I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.”

Source : "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 134), 1990.
“It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.”
“We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "Andâ€”?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.”

Source : Sherwood Smith (2008). “The Trouble with Kings”, p.79, Samhain Publishing
“Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”

Source : Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.50, Lulu.com
“Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.”

Source : "This Is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being". Interview with Michael Idov, www.gq.com. July 12, 2017.
“...decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying....”

Source : "Lost Star : The Search for Amelia Earhart". Book by Randall Brink, 1995.
“I believe in the sun, even when it rains.”
“I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.”

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