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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that. Carlos Castaneda
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If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood. Carlos Castaneda
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To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other. Carlos Castaneda
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Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations. Carlos Castaneda
courage warrior years
There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself. Carlos Castaneda
courage warrior decision
A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power. Carlos Castaneda
courage humble eye
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity. Carlos Castaneda
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When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.' Stacy Schiff
courage failure humility
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin
sometimes more-to-life surviving
There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get Charles de Lint
sometimes failing should
Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes. Charles Stewart Parnell
sometimes categories term
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it. Brian Eno
sometimes pleasure my-own
Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman. Bret Michaels
sometimes enjoy my-own
I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes. Dave Chappelle
sometimes humans persons
You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human. David D. Burns
sometimes wonder sometimes-i-wonder
Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here. Cesar Romero
sometimes fraternal
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing. Jane Austen
sometimes dramatic entertaining
You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes Chi McBride
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The reality is much like you've heard about the Jordan River. There are some not-so-good things in that water that could be potentially dangerous to our divers. Dan Smith
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The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys - white guys - are a small minority and they're just trying to survive. Dean Steward
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The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places, and all of these guys -- white guys -- are a small minority and they're just trying to survive. Dean Steward
danger employers market
The real danger is that the employers market erodes fast. Robert Greenstein
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Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies. Tom Guiry
dangerous mistake
We know how dangerous he is. And we don't want to make a mistake and find out. Bruce Bochy
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Ultimately, voters are going to decide a small-town physician from a small and atypical state is probably not qualified to lead this nation in a dangerous world. Jim Jordan
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Whether your mother is a novelist like mine or a third-generation military wife, the idea of a son or daughter being in mortal danger is terrifying. Elliot Ackerman
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The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback. Charles Kennedy