Amy Poehler Harvard Speech Quotes & Sayings

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them. — Lyle Lovett

Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within. — Brian Tracy

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. — Yogi Berra

Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing. — Samuel Smiles

You have to dig deep in yourself to dream. You have to close your eyes to see. — Debasish Mridha

Not a flower
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,
Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires
Their balmy odors, and imparts their hues,
And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes
In grains as countless as the seaside sands,
The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth
Happy who walks with him! — William Cowper

I have no religious convictions whatsoever. I just believe that the human race is wired, in most cases, to do the right thing. Think about it: when you help someone out, even if you are never going to see them again, you feel good about it. I can't say that I understand it, but somehow the universe is set up this way. If you do the right thing, the good thing, the moral thing, you are making the universe just a bit better, and you feel better also. — Scott Deitler

Huh, when did being a grown up ever mean owt? — Brian Sellars

A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory. — Shawn Lukas

Full value for your soul wouldn't get you a cup of coffee at a convenience store. — Tim Pratt

I think comedy is the hardest art form there is. — John Popper

And even though I'd love you to find meaning in every page, every paragraph of this book, cherry-pick from here, too. We're all different, so what's relevant for you is definitely, absolutely not the same as what's relevant for me or for any of the many hundreds of women I've taught. Take what's relevant. Ignore what isn't; it's there for somebody else who needs it. — Emily Nagoski

An extraordinary writer ... It is the vastness of Nick Tosches' heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness. — Hubert Selby Jr.

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations. — Carl Jung

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders. — Rick Atkinson