Delle Donne Quotes & Sayings

A closed heart is the most self limiting factor in life. Start to listen to your heartfelt desires. — Steven Redhead

That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for. — Elena Delle Donne

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go. — Rebecca Solnit

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it. — Justin Chon

It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough. — Elena Delle Donne

When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get starstruck over. I don't know what I'd do if I met him - I'd be in shock! That's my dream. — Elena Delle Donne

I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and achieve whatever they did. — Elena Delle Donne

When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change. — Joyce Meyer

I thought I needed to go to one of the top five schools in the nation and never even thought 'What's important to me?' Instead of figuring out what was important, which was obviously being near home, I kind of just went with what everyone thought I should do. — Elena Delle Donne

Many things have fallen only to rise higher. — Seneca The Younger

We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national origin. Such reports of violence and threats are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated. — John Ashcroft

I blinked them back, hard. I had a feeling that if I let myself start crying, there was a very real possibility I would never stop again. — Morgan Matson

She was dark, thin, healthy, good-looking, clever, ambitious, rich, unsatisfied, perhaps unscrupulous - but not without a conscience. — Anthony Trollope

You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard. — Elena Delle Donne

I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything from the outside, I'm focused on winning and that next game. — Elena Delle Donne

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer. — David Shapiro

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them. — Elena Delle Donne

And whenever you want to do something and you're not an adult, people tell you to stop. Even when there's no real reason. — Ally Condie

Womanhood is a wonderful thing. In womankind we find the mothers of the race.There is no man so great, nor none sunk so low, but once he lay a helpless, innocent babe in a woman's arms and was dependent on her love and care for his existence. It is woman who rocks the cradle of the world and holds the first affections of mankind. She possesses a power beyond that of a king on his throne.
... Womanhood stands for all that is pure and clean and noble. She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that a woman should be. — Mabel Hale

Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. — L. David Marquet

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking — Albert Einstein

Spend time with your family and try to spend time doing things that you enjoy doing other than basketball. — Elena Delle Donne

Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone. — Elena Delle Donne

I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all. — Elena Delle Donne

Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport. — Elena Delle Donne

Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship? — George Eliot