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Jack Canfield Quotes

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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People End Better Someone Find Fast

There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!

Dress You Know Matter Twins Where

I feel, for the most part, especially in comedy, you make your own work, and maybe that's true across the board.

Work Feel Comedy You True Own

Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.

Character Problem Sometimes Chess

If I'm reading a script, and I'm not buying it, I need to be able to relate to the character on some level, and they need to have more than one dimension. I need to have an idea of what this guy's thinking about when he's taking a shower not on camera. And if I can't picture him taking a shower and getting dressed, then he's not a real person.

Character Reading Thinking Picture

I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any means, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.

Succeed Better Doing Trying Movies

In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether the movie works or not. The financier only makes money if the movie works, and that fundamentally sets up a contentious relationship.

Relationship Money Movies Line Big

When more women join the labor force and, particularly, become entrepreneurs, GDP rises dramatically in those countries - in both developed and developing economies.

Women Labor Become More Force Join

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Comedy Television Streets Cause Much

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Dennis Bergkamp

Time Football You Career Trapped

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

Beach Small Black Only Supply Unit

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

Time Think Down Forget Write Up

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

History I Am Trying Awake Nightmare

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