Foolhardily Quotes & Sayings

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account. — Aesop

What does it take to be a writer? 1) Foolhardily believing that someone might actually be interested in reading what you've written. 2) Spending an enormous amount of time writing it as well as you can. 3) Accepting that, at best, you'll probably be paid something around 25 cents an hour for your efforts. — Todd Strasser

Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job. — Adrien Brody

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but ... um ... no. — Hal Sparks

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk. — Sufjan Stevens

Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I'd fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who'd turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes - well, it gives "breaking your heart" a new meaning. — Rick Riordan

I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power. — Iman

A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy. — Russell Hoban

The Hindus became like the atoms of dust scattered in all directions and like a tale of old in the mouths of people. — Rajnikant Puranik

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. — Edmund Waller

Let us be servants in order to be leaders. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Insecurities. We've all experienced career setbacks, but it's not the setback itself that keeps us from moving forward in our career. It's how you internalize the setback that can stop you from moving forward. Whether the setback was a result of company cutbacks, unmet goals, misaligned expectations, personality clashes or circumstances beyond your control there are always lingering feelings of shock, devastation, anger, frustration, rejection, embarrassment, anxiety and a loss of self-identity. If I have no job, then who am I? — Sherri Thomas

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head. — Dennis Prager

Ah, Colorado: the one place in America where people wake up earlier on weekends than workdays. — Mark Obmascik

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg