Famous Quotes & Sayings

Soledad O'Brien

There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.

Soledad O'Brien

Step out of the space you're in. Use fear to grow. We can change lives, starting with our own.

Slash

No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.

Siri Hustvedt

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

Rajneesh

Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension. It will bring great fulfilment

Rajneesh

Whenever commandments are given they create difficulties for people, because by the time they are given they are already out of date. Life moves so fast; it is a dynamism, it is not static. It is not a stagnant pool, it is a Ganges, it goes on flowing. It is never the same for two consecutive moments. So one thing may be right this moment, and may not be right the next. Then what to do? The only possible thing is make people so aware that they themselves can decide how to respond to a changing life.

Michelle Shocked

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

James Altucher

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

Henry David Thoreau

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Pat Metheny

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Paula Malcomson

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

Jon Anderson

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

Miranda Kerr

Meditation is a great way to stay centered and I think inversions are great for aging. Specifically, I think the Kundalini yoga is really a life changer.

Max Lucado

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.

Maya Angelou

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape

Maya Angelou

I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

Maya Angelou

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

Steve Jobs

The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

Steve Case

[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

Peter Capaldi

One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.

Stephen Levine

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

Stephanie Mills

A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.

Shannen Doherty

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

Tony Scott

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently,

Tony Robbins

If you want to change your life, change the questions you ask yourself each day!

Toni Servillo

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

Robert A. Heinlein

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

Riley Keough

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with.

Tom Perrotta

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.