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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

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Orison Swett Marden
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Category: Loneliness

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but years after we know it was much later.
  • 2. I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.
  • 3. All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school earlier age at the computer and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm so excited for my first fragrance! I chose to partner with Dots because I love what they do for their customers bringing them the hottest trends in fashion accessories and fragrance at unbelievably low prices. It's amazing!
  • 2. At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there get healthy and then eat themselves to death – which is I suppose the right way to do it.
  • 3. So for my studio purposes I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

3 Anger

  • 1. All who consult on doubtful matters should be void of hatred friendship anger and pity.
  • 2. The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought and its first reaction is one of anger.
  • 3. The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly and once you figure it out you think 'Hey if I can do this and get paid that would be kind of cool.'

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 2. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 3. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
  • 2. To work in architecture you are so much involved with society with politics with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society how it functions how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
  • 3. Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture or it isn't real.
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