Not Using Excuses Famous Quotes & Sayings
18 Not Using Excuses Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I only mark the hours that shine.— Edith Bouvier Beale
Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.— Charles Kingsley
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.— Gwyneth Paltrow
With all due respect, Ms. Embers," Mr. Bradshaw started, and I couldn't help but notice how he emphasized the word due, "I'm quite disappointed. One of the very first things I taught you was not to overdo it. Try the obvious before using the complex techniques one might expect a spy to use. When lying or making excuses, make it simple. Ms. Embers: do not make up an elaborate tale involving a porcupine, hairspray, and/or a treasure chest. Say, 'I tripped and cut it on a nail on the sidewalk.' Don't make yourself suspicious.— Embee
Yet early on in the marriage I found myself— Erica Jong
despite all my self-promises
drifting into the role of wife: focusing on the renovations of the apartment, doing silly little domestic things instead of writing, using the wife role as cop-out from my work, my work which had always involved me in so much controversy and which some part of me longed to retreat from ... Even when I was forty-seven, full of my own power, my own identity, something in me wanted to escape from the fray and dwindle into a wife. It seemed to comfy, so safe.
There should not be any excuse. If we don't like our heritages, we've the power to change them for good. Let's go beyond using lame excuses...— Assegid Habtewold
He'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.— George R R Martin
I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want to know until I need to know.— Joshua Morrow
For me emancipation will only be truly reached if a woman can wear makeup and skirts without having her abilities doubted as a result.— Kristina Schroder
When I came to the West and heard about knights slaying dragons, I was shocked. In Tibet, the dragon symbolizes incomprehensible profundity.— Sakyong Mipham
If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.— Renee Fleming
When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.— Epictetus
What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when when I looked at my receding past everything seemed retrospectively marked by an extreme order and predictability yet all moments since seemed to obey, and promised to continue obeying, their own set of stochastic, undisclosed, and undiscoverable laws. Where I was fully aware of the pitfalls and folly of a finely-tuned narcissism but still the known universe seemed to bend and bend inexorably inward and towards me where it awaited my next move, supremely ready to react accordingly. And how I knew that decisions I would soon make or defer would have near-Sophoclean import and yet nonetheless it all seemed oddly irrelevant.— Sergio De La Pava
What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.— Mark Victor Hansen
It sounds to me like you're making excuses," Jeb said quietly. "You're trying to convince yourself, and you're using me to listen to yourself talk.— Nicholas Sparks
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.— Criss Jami
Just wait, dude," Jamie had said. "I'm serious. It's fucking hard-core." Since Jamie described everything from zombie movies to his parents' fights to the new enchilada platter at Taco John's as "fucking hard-core," none of us could gauge much by it.— Emily M. Danforth
Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.— Alexandra Sobetsky
