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As a matter of fact, it was only through the dealer Fred Jahn that I succeeded in overcoming my reservation about the works on paper and exhibiting them. Added to this, of course, was the fact that after ten years I could see the watercolours in a different light, and in conjunction with pictures painted afterwards, they had at least become more comprehensible to me.

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it'll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.

A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!

As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.

A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

Bigger than any obstacle is the strength that one posses It's a power that overcomes every obstacle

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.

But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.

Carlisle: "I've seen vampire venom work miracles, but there are conditions that even venom cannot overcome.

Can I overcome pressure? Yes. This is always my first thought.

Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

Chosing to stay in the moment, is choosing to be free from fear.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Climate change is not about climate change. It's about the people in it getting rich off of an ever-expanding, growing, controlling government. It's all about expanding the government and government control over people. It's about creating victims. When you successfully turn somebody into a victim, you have automatically made them a dependent on you. You are essentially telling them they have lost the power necessary to solve their own problems. And you create within them a mentality that they can't overcome their own problem because they're victims.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

Courage is caution overcome.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They just become determined to push through them and to use that adrenaline to their advantage.

Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.

did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.