#literal

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#any #awesome #beings #beliefs #create

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#language #literal #metaphorical #operates #signification

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally. ↗

— Megan Fox

#i think #literally #obviously #people #quite

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#director #found #job #leave #literally

The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know? ↗

— Hal Sparks

#away #charm #comes #could #else

A man is literally what he thinks. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#man #thinks

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#balls #before #coming #conscious #conscious mind

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#exist #literally #made #maker #means

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. ↗

— Robert Collier

#door #every #gift #gods #human

When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#because #cry #feel #fit #funny