James Lane Allen Quotes

#1. You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

James Lane Allen

#2. To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Lane Allen

#3. Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the groundwork for later success.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.

Quentin Dupieux

#5. A man is literally what he thinks.

James Lane Allen

#6. All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

James Lane Allen

#7. I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

James Lane Allen

#8. I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

Harvey Weinstein

#9. The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp
with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.

James Lane Allen

#10. Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

James Lane Allen

#11. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Lane Allen

#12. In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Lane Allen

#13. The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

James Lane Allen

#14. Good thoughts bear good fruit ...

James Lane Allen

#15. I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

Sadie Frost

#16. Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

James Lane Allen

#17. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

Ayn Rand

#18. Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

James Lane Allen

#19. The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.

James Lane Allen

#20. We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

James Lane Allen

#21. You cannot travel within and stand still without.

James Lane Allen

#22. In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

Tony Kushner