Jack Canfield Quotes

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Jack Canfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.

Jerry Della Femina

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I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

Jeremy Strong

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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

John O'Hara

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With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

John Strachan

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Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

Tom Seaver

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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Robert Bork

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You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

Mitchell Hurwitz

TrainingPeopleAmazingMeStart

I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

Dinaw Mengestu

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I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.

Dennis Banks

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I found that the only thing I felt passionate about drawing were words.

Debbie Millman

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I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

Conrad Black

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