Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.
So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
-- Michael Jordan
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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me."Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing.I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came.
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik?
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.
You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.
I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease.
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.
We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare.""Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great.""Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.
Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised.
Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.
Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world.
All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist.
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
NEVER be surprised by your own success!
Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.
It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.
It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.
One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!
It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.
I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.
It's a philosophical minefield!"Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.
Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.
hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actuallysurprise you in the best of ways.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
I was just kidding, shuck-face," Minho said. "Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers.""Psycho girl ninjas?" Newt repeated, his voice showing he was surprised, if not annoyed, by Minho's additude.
Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.
Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.
Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.
Ben kissed me like he could kiss me forever, like he had to kiss me forever and he wanted to, he wanted me, and when he felt my surprise at that, I could feel again how beautiful I was to him, how I was beautiful beyond words.
the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.
Ros was dead.He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.
If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirit, " I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!"He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.
If you think you've seen it all, put on your sunglasses, because you're about to be surprised.
He pulled her close kissing her mouth taking her by surprise. He stepped back passion smoldering in his eyes. She looked at him touching her mouth where his kiss still burned.
Love is a journey and a destination - long and excruciating on the way, unexpected and ecstatic if found.
What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God.
There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.
Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.
Sneezeweed, Drew?"He grinned. "Jealous?""Surprised.""Remind me, and I'll have a talk with Gerald. Give him a few tips.""Promise?""Absolutely.
Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.
(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.
If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies.
Thought you didn't like red hair."One of Drew's dimples kicked in as he draped an arm about Grandma's shoulder. "Must have me confused with someone else, but I'm not surprised. Seems to happen to most of the older set at some point or other.
What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.
I mean, I hope you're happy,But the sky is still the sky without you,And I'm not surprised by that anymore.
If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.
Who you are doesn't surprise me, who you are not does.
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
O, never from the memory of my heartYour dear, paternal image shall depart,Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised,Taught me how mortals are immortalized;How grateful am I for that patient careAll my life long my language shall declare.
The tricky part about discovering our giftedness is that it may be in an area that feels unexpected.
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.
We are in God’s hands. We can’t come up with a surprise big enough or a sin vile enough to thwart His plan. If we allow Him to refine us we will inevitably end up free from the impurities that separate us from Him.
The greatest love stories are unexpected, unexplained... choreographed chaos played out in God’s timing. It feels like a chance encounter with a familiar stranger... Like a rekindling of an eternal flame.
There is such an intimate connection between the way we look at things and what we actually discover. If you can learn to look at yourself and your life in a gentle, creative, and adventurous way, you will be eternally surprised at what you find.
Another gate of success was widely open for her, a reckless step led to an unexpected career.. Sometimes, that’s what we hope for after every mistake we make.
The secret to humor is surprise.
You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do forlove.Myrnin.
MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today...Name 1 thing that moved you...Name 1 thing that inspired you...
Surprise is where creativity comes in.
You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
But what if you're wrong?What if there's more?What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for?What if you jump?And just close your eyes?What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?What if He's more than enough?What if it's love?
Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by surprise.
It's funny how love can fit inside a brown cardboard box. With relationships, people often think that things pile up. But when it ends, they're surprised how few these things turn out to be. Or at least, how few things they are willing to let go of.
Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth.
It’s one thing if a mistake occurs because of circumstance or a miscalculation or the unexpected or inexperience; it’s another if it’s part of a pattern of carelessness or ineptitude or laziness. Then it becomes a choice.
I suppose we’ll get used to being grownup in time. There won’t be so many unexpected things about it by and by–though, after all, I fancy it’s the unexpected things that give spice to life.
From a simple thing,To the unexpected point.An idea will spring,If Changing your viewpoint,
To mourn the unexpected death Of a thousand fetuses, I fire up the yellow dusk, and watch the time standing motionless.
I could know every detail of your history but you will always surprise me with your thoughts.
Go with the flow...keep knocking at all doors, you will be surprised at how many are actually already open...!!!
When you openly ask the world for sunshine but the world decides to surprise you with rain, do you notice how much beauty grows from those clouds of you wish away every time.
This was the unexpected ... unforeseeable resolution of the paradox ... her personal goodness was no longer the issue because it had been replaced by the sweetness of relationship.
When I saw Jurassic Park in the cinema something unexpected happened when the first dinosaur came on screen: I felt a huge, hopeful pressure in my chest and my eyes filled with tears. It was miraculous: a thing I'd seen representations of since I was a child had come alive.
God is "teaching us something very meaningful" – whether of the unexpected powers of endurance of those affected or the hidden depths of compassion of those who respond.
Be the standard of quality in this world where excellence is void and unexpected.
Jack's voice was heavy with the tingling awe he sometimes felt when a part of a story he’d thrown in on a whim later proved important in an unexpected way. At times like those he honestly wondered if the thing he called inspiration wasn’t something else, something alive, speaking through his pen.
When we are fairly observant and overly patient, a vibration of happiness might crop up unwittingly, as we capture the “timelessness” of a lucky moment and a sparkle of a stray instant, unexpectedly, enraptures our life in a blaze of color and splendor. ( "Happy days are back again" )
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that life can change unexpectedly and instantaneously. Regardless, you have to keep putting one foot in front of the other, so that when life unexpectedly changes for the better -you already know how to walk and can seize it.
I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.
Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent.
Dear Life,I am always prepared for the Worst, making no space for sorrow surprises. Mistakenly Yours,Life Member
Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going
You'd be surprised how good writing matters when you're going after money.
you asked me where i wanna go,i said«surprise me»at the ice cream shop,you asked what i wanted to orderi said«surprise me»
If you were built for optimism, you just had to figure out a way to stay that way. We couldn't keep not caring, even if we wanted to; we just weren't made for it. I felt an unexpected throb of empathy for pessimists: You can't help it, either.
Don't be surprised when you arrive at a place at the end of a road you insist on traveling down!
Hold onto your miracle,It's just a spark right now,Guard it from the wind that blows,Ignore the tongues that wag and the clock that drags so slow,Day you day the spark to a flame will grow,On a day unexpected, the miracle in life will show
You’ll be surprised to see what can collect in a mattress over the months, over the years. Every day, every night of our lives, we’re leaving little bits of ourselves, flakes of this and that, behind. Where do they go, these bits and pieces of ourselves?
The devouring force of the future leered at him at unexpected moments. Then too his daily self seemed to be wearing thin, and the past seeped thru and mastered him for increasingly longer periods.
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
Do not assume to know. You will be surprised to realize you were ignorant all along.
I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.
Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
Even when all is lost, and your faith has weakened; life will still surprise.
He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she tightened her own fingers and unceremoniously, unexpectedly, threw herself down the incline, dragging him with her.Dragging him with her!
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.
Confidence contribute 30 percent of your success. Be confident every time and everyday. You will be surprise what you can achieve.
As soon as you realise that you can surpass the unexpected situations with ease, you also realise that your confidence on the subject matter starts to grow. And then you know it’s all about heart and practice.
The Universe is a puzzle.Life is a problem to be solved.It's not what it appears to be.There are doors.There are locks and keys.There are levels.If you get it right, somehow, it will give way to something extremely unexpected.-Terence McKenna
Rothenberg was dumbfounded, shocked speechless. He was retained to provide treatment in a fourth-degree fondling case. This was far worse. This is a first-degree case. These boys were raped! The floodgates opened—details were pouring out now.
Dead trollops will always open their eyes in surprise.
Family "Life is extremely unpredictable and has this funny way of springing surprises; sometimes kind or otherwise. We can survive if we have our anchors strongly pivoted and buried deep; our Family and Friends. Don't forget to spend time with them.
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.
I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like.
He's waiting for yu, young queen.'Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.
People act all surprised when someone dies i think thats a sign that they forget we not permanent residents on this earth
If you set your hopes low, you can be pleasantly surprised if anything good happens. I guess it's a way of hardening your heart. A way of resisting the love of God that has been generously poured out through the Holy Spirit. Poured out. Not measured out by teaspoons. Poured. An image of abundance.
Find yourself first, and be surprised at how quickly and logically “the” one just appears in front of you.
You’d be surprised how being in the wrong place can help you see things the right way.
It made him feel like less of a man. And given how much less of a man he’d felt the past several weeks, that was really saying something. He was surprised someone from the Man Club hadn’t come by to revoke his dick and balls.
Forget yesterday ... Tomorrow still holds happy surprises for us.
I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.
When all is lost and your faith has weakened; life will still surprise you.
No more brainwashing—expect the unexpected to blow your mind! Connect with yourself and your life’s purpose—then grow.
To her surprise, Lucky tilted his head and looked her in the eye, appearing oddly…crestfallen, she thought. “Don’t be nervous,” he said. “I hate making you nervous.
Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
Everyone's life has got at least one biggest positive surprise just wait for your's.
Sometimes,the frustrations and disappointments we face are pointers to bricks we need, to start the foundation of something unexpected and blissful.
Life is a Series of Surprise.~Dr Gorakh Bobde.
Live life. Do the unexpected, who the hell cares! Just have fun.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Love comes to us unexpectedly to teach us the art of devotion.
It is difficult to unlearn a lifetime of habitability and then to comprehend suddenly to unfamiliar, strange, even marvellous things. To allow for surprise and improvisation is to begin the apprenticeship of learning the way that is no way.
I am not for a moment suggesting that everything that goes on in laboratories will ultimately turn to some unexpected practical use or that an ultimate practical use is its actual justification. Much more I am pleading for the abolition of the word "use", and for freeing of the human spirit.
Never shut out the natural curiosity your mind has. Life wants you to continually expand upon your knowledge base. You will be surprised the few secrets people keep and will give up with an innocently-framed question.
The warrior comes to knowledge fully prepared to die, and thus circumvents all possible pitfalls. Being prepared for the worst, the warrior cannot be surprised, because he is not expecting to live. Facing death, the warrior cuts out all unnecessary acts; therefore his fate unfolds smoothly.
Pain can make us lash out in unexpected ways.Pain can make us hurt those we care about.Pain can build walls between two human souls.
Life is not to elude adversity, but to embrace it. When challenge clinches hold of you, surprise it and grab back.
But what matters most is the aspiration to live in balance with nature, "walk lightly on the land," treat the earth as a mother. No surprise that to such a morality most industrial processes, work schedules, and products are suspect!
Geochemists said the 'shocked quartz' was not really shocked at all - not even mildly surprised.
The W. M. Keck Observatory is the only employer that has surprise drug tested me during my employment.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
