Gabriele Oettingen Quotes & Sayings

A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away. — Deborah Wiles

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas

Life is delicious. Waste not one bite! — A.D. Posey

I always feel like a doctor who loses a patient on the operating table or something where I felt just devastated and I beat myself up until I get to try it the next night and "I'll get it better tonight." So I'm hard on myself. I think I'm not alone in that regard with acting. — Allison Janney

Speak well of the law. Take care of your chest and voice, my good friend, and leave the law to take care of itself. I give you that advice — Charles Dickens

Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into. — Michael Raymond-James

The world is a very strange place,and the dice are always rolling — Tom Robbins

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. — Steve Jobs

I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you. — Elvia Alvarado

I've always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well. — Jerry Hall

These people - the employed, the somewhat privileged - are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls. — Howard Zinn

We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates. — Victoria Beckham

A big heavy phrase is easier to handle if it comes at the end, when your work assembling the overarching phrase is done and nothing else is on you mind. (It's another version of the advice to prefer right-branching trees over left-branching and center-embedded ones.) Light-before-heavy is one of the oldest principles in linguistics, having been discovered in the fourth century BCE by the Sanskrit grammarian Panini. It often guides the intuitions of writers when they have to choose an order for items in a list, as in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle; and Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! — Steven Pinker

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi