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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Related topics: Motivational
When life seems overwhelming, just step back for a day.
Consider what is most important.
Focus on the crucial issues in your life.
Just let the rest of your upsets go.
You can't fix the whole world, but you can still make a difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,
even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
There lies freedom, indeed.
- Anonymous
A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
I have been driven many times to my knees
by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go.
My own wisdom, and that of all about me,
seemed insufficient for the day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Overwhelm is not a pleasant condition.
The to-do list overflows,
the deadlines appear imminent and immovable.
There are too many demands upon too little of your time.
Does this sound familiar?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to learn to push the guilt
under the rug and move on,
otherwise it overwhelms you.
- the Woody Allen movie Match Point
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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