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Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'
We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.
The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on the day of Pentecost anciently.
There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
People need to be in charge of their development plan. They need to seek out their sponsors and their mentors and be very strategic.
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.
I think the singer in Pearl Jam should eat some Pearl Jam! He cannot sing to save his life! And the guitar player needs to seek help.
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.
For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.
I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
No student should feel like there isn't a way to seek justice, and no student should feel that the scales are tipped against him or her.
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?
We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.
It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.
Personally, I don't go and seek contact with fans, but if they happen to find me somewhere I'll say hello and speak to them for a while.
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive issues to seek help. It's brave of him.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
By the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurs, led by Web and mobile startups, began to seek and develop their own management tools.
The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab all we can.
My core belief is to seek peace in the world, helping people eliminate certain malevolent attitudes through education as much as possible.
I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.
I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.
You can seek out a lot of publicity if you want, depending on your choices. A lot of major celebrities don't have paparazzi following them.
We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Once you embrace the absolute truth that every leader needs a mentor, you can begin to achieve the massive growth and success that you seek.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
I don't believe that if one door closes, that's the end. You're in control of that, but you need to seek opportunities and prepare for them.
I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.