Mazziotta Construction Quotes & Sayings

The thought that makes most people the weakest is shame, which produces humiliation. The importance of forgiving yourself cannot be stated strongly enough. If you carry around thoughts of shame about what you've done in the past, you're weakening yourself both physically and emotionally. Similarly, if you use a technique of shame and humiliation on anyone to get them to reform, you're going to create a weakened person who will never become empowered until those shameful and humiliating thoughts are removed. Removing your own thoughts of shame involves a willingness to let go, to see your past behaviors as lessons you had to learn, and to reconnect to your source through prayer and meditation. — Wayne W. Dyer

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another. — Donald Miller

An author of fiction is a god of the world he creates. But it must be a world others want to inhabit. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

When a girl turns down your advances, the polite thing to do is just move on. — Adam Selzer

The fact that it's hard to create an original British musical doesn't mean you shouldn't try. — Gurinder Chadha

Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire. — Zig Ziglar

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin. — Jean-Philippe Rameau

He had gathered about him what was considered by many to be the intellectual and artistic elite ... actually, a group of bored men and libertines who were glib-tongued, talking much of art, literature, and music but without any deep-seated convictions upon any subject aside from their own prejudices. Mainly concerned with their own posturing, they were creatures of fad and whim, seizing upon this writer or that composer and exalting him to the skies until he bored them, then shifting to some other. Occasionally, the artist upon whom they lavished attention were of genuine ability, but more often they possessed some obscurity that gave the dilettantes an illusion of depth and quality. In the majority of cases what was fancied to be profound was simply bad writing, bad painting, or deliberately affected obscurity. — Louis L'Amour

Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails. — Bob Barr

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code. — Donna J. Haraway

[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law. — Thomas Jefferson

Look at you," he continued. "I want to build things for you, give you a reason to be soft. Give you a reason not to reach for a fucking gun when you open your eyes. — Debra Anastasia

I am pretty unextraordinary, ~ Hazel Grace Lancaster. — John Green

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me. — Zubin Mehta

Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Familes are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. — Diane Setterfield