Burnishing Quotes

#1. Therapy could be of tremendous benefit to "getting over" one's past if the therapy is focused on specific ways to stop submitting to the temptation to obsess. Many people with difficult histories carry these histories with them, burnishing the past with each retelling.

Augusten Burroughs

#2. Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

Richard Ford

#3. The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

Woodrow Wilson

#4. When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.

Lakshmi Mittal

#5. Daemons had minds of their own, which could never be harnessed, even by those who sheltered them.

Curtis Bill Pepper

#6. Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

Jerry Bridges

#7. There ought to be a word for the Winter form of a tree.

Vivian Swift

#8. Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

John Locke

#9. So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

Lucretius

#10. All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

Renee O'Connor