Joakim Noah Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about. — Benjamin Carson

There is another legal sense of the word "copyright" much emphasized by several English justices. — Richard Rogers Bowker

No," Isabella said. "I've been out to eat with boys who were my boyfriend, but that's not dating. That's just parallel eating. — Jennifer Close

Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.' — David Hawkins

The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over there." You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here.
So you don't have to do the long search, the frantic chase, the painful quest. You're already right where you need to be. — Steve Hagen

At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship. — Lucy Lawless

I don't understand leggings. They were the worst trend of the '80s. — Jason Earles

Life is like a box of cookies. — Haruki Murakami

Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures. — Alessandro Del Piero

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one grows a little, every day something is different, so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible has become possible. This is how a girl becomes a grown woman. Step by step until it is done. — Naomi Alderman

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves. — Karen Kain

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW ... always. — Mark Twain

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. — Joseph Conrad

In all other construction disciplines, engineers plan a construction strategy that craftmen execute. Engineers don't build bridges; ironworkers do. Only in software is the engineer tasked with actually building the product. Only in software is the "ironworker" tasked with determining how the product will be constructed. — Alan Cooper