Alex Stoddard Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't going to be average. — Chamique Holdsclaw

are experts at taking care of everybody around us, do we doubt our ability to take care of ourselves? What is it about us? Many of us learned these things because when we were children, someone very important to us was unable to give us the love, approval, and emotional security we needed. So we've gone about our lives the best way we could, still looking vaguely or desperately for something we never got. Some of us are still beating our heads against the cement trying to get this love from people who, like Mother or Father, are unable to give what we need. The cycle repeats itself until it is interrupted and stopped. It's called unfinished business. — Melody Beattie

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927 — Mark Twain

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs. — Viktor E. Frankl

A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry. — Randall Jarrell

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one — Socrates

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers. — Peter Greenaway

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough. — Arthur C. Clarke

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too. — Steve Jobs