I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
Maya AngelouWriting is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
Wayne DyerThe game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.
The WeekndTrials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Charles SpurgeonLast year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.
Will RogersWhen life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor RooseveltI have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. WashingtonWe were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.
George BestI wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.
Billie EilishIf my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.
Kendrick LamarA life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard ShawClinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?
Russell M. NelsonI have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
Walt DisneyWomen, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia EarhartHow hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
Albert CamusIt would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Katharine HepburnWe should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
Alice WalkerExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar WildeIf anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.
Anthony BourdainWe don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.
John C. MaxwellThe main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn’t come out right, you’ve got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.
Dr. SeussAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinAs more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.
Richard BransonConcede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
Abraham LincolnWe think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
Steve JobsThere are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.
Joyce MeyerThe challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen CoveyOne must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
Napoleon BonaparteNo man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
Gilbert K. ChestertonGreat industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
Jeff BezosWhat I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.
Bruno MarsI had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Kurt CobainThe man who has no problems is out of the game.
Elbert HubbardAt twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin FranklinAfrica is on the rise.
Bill GatesPeople don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.
Dolly PartonI got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.
Kevin HartThe spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola TeslaI like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
Anthony HopkinsThere are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.
Jocko WillinkSpeaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.
Jackie ChanIf your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil GibranBack when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.
Richard BransonOnce you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.
Anthony HopkinsCompetition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. RooseveltImperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas CarlyleThere’s many ups and downs in the fight game.
Conor McGregorThe desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Steve JobsThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.
Hermann HesseHe ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily DickinsonI think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil ArmstrongI grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.
Angelina JolieI long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
Jean-Jacques RousseauMy childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
J. Robert OppenheimerWhen ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will RogersIf we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
Stephen CoveyFounding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.
Mark ZuckerbergSend forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles DickensWe do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
Golda MeirEvery time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Bob Marley