Maya Dolas Quotes & Sayings

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end. — Ernie J Zelinski

No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous. — Michael J. Fox

I'm trying to build something where people will go every day. — Max Levchin

Today's Valentine's Day. There's a whole day devoted solely to love. Does that make any sense? Nah. Love makes us all crazy. But it's fun too. — Lisa Greenwald

You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time. — Seth

Those who ignore or belittle karmic cause and result are followers of the nihilist heretics. Those who base their confidence only upon the view of emptiness will plunge lower and lower toward the extreme view of nihilism. Those who catapult into this negative direction will never find freedom from the lower states of existence and will be far removed from the higher realms. They say that doctrines emphasizing conventional meanings such as cause and result, compassion, and meritorious accumulations will not bring buddhahood, whereas the uncontrived definitive meaning that resembles the sky is what the great yogis must meditate upon. Among nihilistic views, that is the epitome; and among lower paths, that is the lowest of all. How amazing to claim that, by blocking the cause, a result can be accomplished. — Longchen Rabjam

So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims. — Samuel Gompers

Michelangelo was once asked how he would carve an elephant. He replied, I would take a large piece of stone and take away everything that was not the elephant. — Sharon Salzberg

Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails. — Catherynne M Valente

If human help fails, God will never forsake thee. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed. — Matthew McConaughey

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active. — Beverley Mitchell

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is. — Carlos Castaneda

It's not what you believe that counts; it's what you believe enough to do. — Richard Stearns

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there. — Ariel Sharon