But instead I am applying for a job as an elf. Even worse than applying is the very real possibility that I will not be hired, that I couldn't even find work as an elf. That's when you know you're a failure.
Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
It's really the best time to be a woman. And instead it can be an advantage. Think about what you can bring to the table that what you have to offer that makes you unique.
Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is an excellent, joyful use of our life. Instead of getting better and better at avoiding, we can learn to accept the present moment as if we had invited it, and work with it instead of against it, making it our ally rather than our enemy.
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
We need to transcend our thoughts and desires to truly understand philosophy and the universe as a whole. However, in our everyday life, we deal with the micro universe and with our own affairs. Therefore we need to use our brain. To practice Tao is not to rid yourself of all thoughts. There are actually more occasions when you would use your true intention instead of non-desire.
Instead of running from the negative, I've started running towards the positive.
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves.
Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi. " It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with a different hair color and a new body. . . I do very little of that. That's why I keep bringing up the same people. I haven't given myself a hard time about it. But I can't make six new characters instead of one.
When one has reverence for life, one will never do anything to harm, hinder, or destroy life. Instead one bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. One strives to maintain, enhance, and assist life to make the most of itself.
It is so easy to exist instead of live.
You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.
Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.
It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.
Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion of the material world is completely real. That belief is our only prison. It prevents us from making the journey into the unknown.