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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

Art, Yourself, Mistakes

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy

Change, Attitude, Control

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton

Life, Change, Experience

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
Henri Nouwen

Love, Loved, Journey

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
Jennifer Aniston

Love, True, Daily

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
Colin Powell

Marriage, Legal, Live

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Ted Olson

Marriage, Gay, Another

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.
Rick Perry

Work, Women, Men

For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.
Mark Zuckerberg

Work, Time, Business

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
Rand Paul

Society, Free, Means

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
Horace Walpole

Help, Cannot, Excellent

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
Nicole Kidman

Love, Yourself, Struggle

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.
Simon Travaglia

Smile, Yourself, Effort

I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.
Mark Udall

Marriage, Gay, Same

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.
Daniel Radcliffe

Learning, Yourself, True

I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.
Rick Warren

God, Dog, Heaven

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
Sting

Love, Person, Create

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.
Laurel Clark

Best, Thankful, Parents

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.
Marco Rubio

Here, Nation, Year

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Martha Beck

Anger, Children, Show

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
Emma Thompson

Writing, Control, Find

I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
Benjamin Carson

Live, Gay, Long

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
LL Cool J

Music, Trying, Keep

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
Scott Hamilton

Teacher, Smarter, Grade

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
Benjamin Carson

God, Greatest, America

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Morgan

Change, Happiness, Art

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
Benjamin Carson

Marriage, Sacred, Equivalent

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
Charles Babbage

Power, Another, Fall

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman

Freedom, Old, Sense

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