Spike Lee
Filmmaker, Actor
"It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work."
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Allowing
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Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us."
Theaster Gates
Artist, professor
"I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too."
Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves."
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"Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do."
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"I am not allowing myself to get carried away."
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"All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense."
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"Multi-touch-sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic."
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"I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency."
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