Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

Linus Pauling

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Linus Torvalds

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

Leo Tolstoy

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Buscaglia

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

Lawrence Summers

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

Leon Uris

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

Joseph Campbell

When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Karl Popper

All life is problem solving

John Legend

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

Jodie Foster

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

Jimmy Carl Black

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

Jim Rohn

How long should you try? Until.

Jim Rohn

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Jim Rohn

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

George MacDonald

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Elvis Presley

Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You never know how a good quest is going to end.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold...

Elizabeth Gilbert

There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ...

Julie Andrews

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

Joyce Meyer

An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.

Katharine Hepburn

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

Joseph Haydn

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Kate Spade

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Leonard Cohen

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Lawrence Welk

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Laura Z. Hobson

Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

Lasse Hallstrom

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.