"The whistle is always waiting to be blown,……" — Anne Lamott
"The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work."
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…
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At first, I thought the ring might be a fake, a lie. But it was real to me. When I…
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you…
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I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it…
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Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots…
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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
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The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is…
— A A Milne
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That rock and roll, eh? That rock and roll, it just won't go away. It might hibernate from time to…
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When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or…
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It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man…
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting…
— Wally Lamb
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It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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