Olivia Dresher Quotes & Sayings

The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play. — Jim Carrey

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action. — Ramez Naam

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. — Mark Cuban

Maybe if I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing soprano for a week. — Rick Riordan

Be realized when, in 1937, I introduced him in New York City, to Colonel Boris Bykov. At St. Matthews Court, Collins lived alone. He was separated from his wife (he has since married Susan B. Anthony III). He had a son about ten years old whom I met once when he was visiting his father (on some holiday — Whittaker Chambers

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it. — Shaun Tan

It's not always easy to find the motivation to push yourself to higher limits. But when you surround yourself with people who inspire you, you'll find that their attitudes and their outlook on life are contagious. You will learn from their mistakes and their successes. You will gain a wealth of knowledge and wisdom, which will only help you grow and get you closer to your own goals. — Anonymous

My greatest skill in life has been to want but little — Henry David Thoreau

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. — Edward R. Murrow

It's a funny thing, 'The Office,' because millions and millions and millions and millions of people didn't watch it. But culturally, it is more of a phenomenon than almost anything else I can remember as far as British television is concerned. — Martin Freeman

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. — Lucian Freud

A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin. — Samuel Johnson

All religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do. — Mary Martha Sherwood

We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love. — Ashley Olsen

What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning. — Madeleine Bunting