Enforces Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations. — Dane Cook

I must not look the hawk in the eye. I must not punish the hawk, though it bates, and beats, and my hand is raw with pecks and my face stings from the blows of its bating wings. Hawks cannot be punished. They would die rather than submit. Patience is my only weapon. Patience. Derived from patior. Meaning to suffer. It is an ordeal. I shall triumph. — Helen Macdonald

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do ... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how. — Donald Barthelme

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer. — Charles Grodin

I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce. — Helen Wills Moody

I leaned down, grabbing his face and pulling it to mine, letting myself kiss him with every failed hope, lost dream, every frustrated moment of low self-esteem, every hidden, dark, secret, shameful thing. I kissed him like therapy. Like I could pour it all into him and finally be free. — Jessica Gadziala

Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock. — Eva Hesse

We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us. — Umberto Boccioni

We have two choices when things pile up at work or we're surrounded by energy vampires who leave us feeling depleted. We can get frantic, hyperventilate, shut down, and become reactive. Needless to say, these responses to stress just make us more stressed. Surrendered people have the ability to pause, take a deep breath, and observe. — Judith Orloff

But it's the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more. I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round. — Anne Frank