Dwell Quotes

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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don`t try to forget the mistakes, but you don`t dwell on it. You don`t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

- Johnny Cash

I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don`t think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.

- Barbara Hershey

I don`t think it`s wise to dwell on regret. There`s regret, sure. But whatever you`ve done good or bad, is a part of who you are now. That`s the thing you can change and improve.

- Charlie Sheen

A painting... is just one image. It allows you to elaborate, dwell on that one picture, go off on it because no further images are forced upon you. But the motion picture is always changing. So what you have to do is create some kind of eye field, an abstract form in a literal sense that tries to emulate what the brain is perceiving, not what the eye is seeing.

- John Leslie

That`s kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that`s hasn`t happened.

- Brett Favre

What I like about the film (Juno) is that it tackles an issue that we often treat as this really heavy, dark event and we look at it with a different perspective. She`s extremely independent. She finds adoptive parents before she even tells her parents. I just think it`s nice to not dwell in darkness.

- Ellen Page

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

- Oprah Winfrey

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.

- Oprah Winfrey

In everything that I do I learn and try to put it to use. I have learned to go through life not into it. It`s like a boat. You mustn`t let the water in or you`re sunk. Of course, I`ve made mistakes and I have had failures, but I do not dwell on them because people don`t care about garbage. When I make a mistake it`s like a bad leaf on a lettuce - I throw it out into the waste basket.

- Ginger Rogers

To dwell is to garden.

- Martin Heidegger

I don`t dwell on success. Maybe that`s one reason I`m successful.

- Calvin Klein

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I`ll be playing them the rest of my life, I don`t want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I`ll have to keep reliving.

- Chantal Kreviazuk

I wouldn`t change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

- Ethel Merman

I was horrified on the last Bond I did. Whole slews of sequences where Christopher Walken was machine-gunning hundreds of people. I said `That wasn`t Bond, those weren`t Bond films.` It stopped being what they were all about. You didn`t dwell on the blood and the brains spewing all over the place.

- Roger Moore

It was hard sitting out last year, really hard. But I looked to the future. I don`t dwell. I can`t change the past. I`ve got my senior year and I`m going to make the best of it. We`re going to win a state championship.

- Steven Anderson

If you`d told me I`d have these problems from the first month of the season, I`d have told you were crazy. But you can`t dwell on it. Right now, I feel pretty good. I feel like I can help this team.

- Mike Hampton

I don`t really dwell on numbers. My philosophy is that you attract quality students that have good attitudes and work hard, ... Those students attract more students of the same kind and the numbers take care of themselves.

- Steve Barnett

I dwell in possibility...

- Emily Dickinson

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

- Everett Dirksen

They`re tough people. They`ve dealt with it for generations. The danger is not something you dwell on.

- Jim Rose

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

- Aaron Brant

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

- Abby Bloch

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people`s characters.

- Adam Markham

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don`t always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

- Al Sevier

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

- Alain Juppe

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

- Alan Grieve

Don`t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

- Alan Stissel

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

- Albert McHenry

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

- Alena Nardinger

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

- Alex Garwood

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

- Alex Mosson

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

- Amanda Egan

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

- Ambrosia Prudhomme

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.

- Amir Attaran

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

- Amir Attaran

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

- Andrew Guccione

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; `Tis virtue makes the bliss, where`er we dwell.

- Andrew Mack

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

- Andrew Popper

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

- Andrew Shao

I got a great block from my teammates. I`m very happy, but I won`t dwell on this.

- Andy Fordham

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together

- Andy Goodenow

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

- Andy Klotz

You always want to play well, but it was a tough game on the road, we got a big win and you want to take that into the next game but you don`t want to dwell on it.

- Andy Marx

Look my story has been a really happy one except for that comment from John Brogden, so let`s not dwell on it.

- Angel Acosta

I didn`t give myself any time to let it set in. I didn`t go through any depression, and it`s not something I dwell on. It definitely helped to have goals.

- Angela Green

Never mentioned it. He was just about getting down to business. It kind of sets an example of, you never dwell on the past.

- Austen Wilemon

We just have to let this go and not dwell on it,

- Barret Peery

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

- Tom Seaver

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away

- Emily Dickinson

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

- Alexandre Dumas père