Jack Canfield Quotes

One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

Jack Canfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 19, 1944

Topics

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By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

John le Carre

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I've been very lucky that I've never had cellulite. My body was always firm.

Sofia Vergara

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Simone Weil

PowerOverGetPossess

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

Tony Randall

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People say the top part of my face looks like my dad's and the bottom part like my mom's. I have his eyes and her nose and mouth.

River Viiperi

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Pretty much any artist that I know of that has found that mentor status, if they're generous and okay to bestow a bit of mentor-type information, it's do what you feel, not what you think.

Rodney Crowell

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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Michael Malone

FailureFaithThinkAmericaGreatest

My first year of high school, I attended Duval High, home of the Duval Tigers. It's located in one of most notorious neighborhoods in the Prince George's County, Maryland, area.

Jay IDK

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I'm biased toward romantic comedies; they're probably my favorite genre.

Jason Fuchs

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I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

MyselfTogetherYourselfParentsYou

I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

Donna Brazile

ThoughtYouKnowingPraiseStrengths

One time, I was going to be in L.A. for 10 days for a business conference, and I took eight different pairs of sandals.

Chris Gardner

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