Jack Canfield Quotes

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

Jack Canfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifePeopleMeThinkingMy LifeGo

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

John Gay

MenYouKeepMightOffThem

I've never had an empty house. Ever.

Meredith Monk

HouseNeverEmptyEverHad

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

Tony Blair

BusinessPerspectiveWinStrongView

Fellini belongs to nature.

Roberto Benigni

NatureBelongsFellini

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.

Russell Smith

SchoolChurchImagineBetweenCross

For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.

Rufus Sewell

HomeStyleMeComedyKindMore

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

Joshua Bell

MusicThinkViolinLeadEverything

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Desiderius Erasmus

NothingHumanObscureClearlyKnown

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

Debra Lawrance

ResponsibilityPeopleStrongLoved

Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.

Alice Dreger

ParentsYouPreventionGayDisease

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Swami Sivananda

LifeTodayTomorrowNeverOwnMay

I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available.

Richard Diebenkorn

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