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We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal. Bobby Robson
clever people contradiction
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
clever reality self
[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death. Thandie Newton
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Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... Terry Pratchett
clever book literature
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.
clever couple men
You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man. Kimora Lee Simmons
clever work stupid
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. Kin Hubbard
clever stupid genius
There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it. Melissa Etheridge
clever smart boys
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled? Michael Parkinson
reality yesterday promise
Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history! Billy Blanks
reality want sometimes
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. Chuck Close
reality hard-times people
Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting. Chuck D.
reality lines ifs
Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing. Christopher Walken
reality men new-experiences
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. Christopher McCandless
reality definitions noble
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. Christopher Morley
reality photographer spirit
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. Ansel Adams
reality ego training
The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things. Anne Bancroft
reality ideas always-trying
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to. Andrew Cohen
self reactions self-efficacy
Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others Albert Bandura
self different patterns
In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects
self doe belief
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
self doe sake
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self imagination worry
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations. Albert Ellis
self despair disease
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. Albert Camus
self order people
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.
self water trying
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.
self giving solitude
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.