Ted Turner
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
No man is wise enough by himself.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Be Here Now.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Sign: "Illiterate? Write for free help."
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Love is the only gold.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Live your life and forget your age.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
We're on a mission from God.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.