Fire is harmful unless it’s controlled. Then it provides warmth, enables us to cook, and sets a romantic tone when contained in a fireplace.

Your response to rejection is the same way. When your response is unbridled, it can devastate. When your response is controlled, it can be used to motivate you, stir you into action, and bring you closer to your goals.

Be careful not to compare how insecure you feel about yourself on the inside with how polished others may look on the outside.

The more perfect another person appears to be, the more likely they feel inadequate.

It ought to be with a sense of relief, not a sense of compromise and reluctance, that we come to the conclusion that we are not and never will be perfect.

Your own life is your competition.

Rejection causes pain but like physical pain, it goes away.

By understanding that all rejection is beneficial, you’ll be able to open-mindedly examine each rejection rather than allowing negativity to creep in and take over.

Positive thinking people use rejection to motivate them.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. Hang on to your vision.

We conquer by continuing.

Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.

Submitting to fear and avoiding rejection takes away our freedom to dream.

When we feed ourselves full of possibilities, we gain courage.

When you continue exploring your possibilities, great ideas emerge that can benefit you and others in a big way.

Every lasting success involves overcoming rejection.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

You can’t make the decision for someone else to reject you. Take the risk!

Their pride often got the best of them. Rather than face the fear of embarrassment, they would simply reject the idea.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

The score I always have on heavy repeat is 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark!'

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

God wants to bless us where we are.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute.

If the only way we judged hunger was how full the stomach is no one would ever have dessert.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Don't worry about planning every step of your life.

I pretend that I was never in the movies. The only job I had before was selling prawns door to door. That's what I tell myself. My kids have never seen my films. I'm too embarrassed to show them.

Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

Mrs. Thatcher was a powerful figure at the time I was a student in London. And I admire her versatility and strength.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.