"We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves."
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"It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion."
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"The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and you live happily ever after. There isn't room for more nuanced concerns about the creepy proprietary nature of that relationship model, or the breadth of what fulfillment really means for women."
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"I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
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"All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us."
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"Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much."
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"Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released."
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"All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite."
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"Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark."
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"AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground."
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"Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night."
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"If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time."
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"If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity"
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"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might."
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"Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated."
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"No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of heaven, no one has heard about his realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existenceDeath is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death."
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"Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right."
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"Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it."
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"I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before."
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"Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts."
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