Saiman Chow Quotes & Sayings

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both. — Dwayne Johnson

I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say. — Mike Tyson

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it. — Florence Nightingale

I don't want to give the terrorists any ideas, but if I really wanted to cripple a city with biological warfare, my WMD of choice would have to be the toddler. — Jim Gaffigan

She knew it was wrong. her life didn't allow for that kind of desire; society didn't condone it, either. She could try to dismiss her feelings as temporary, a by-product of other factors in her life. But she knew that wasn't true. Dawson wasn't some stranger that she happened to rendezvous with; he was he first and only true love, the most enduring of all. — Nicholas Sparks

I've found my productive-writing-to-screwing-around ratio to be one to seven. So, for every eight hour day of writing, there is only one good productive hour of work being done. The other seven hours are preparing for writing: pacing around the house, collapsing cardboard bxes for recycling, reading the DVD extras pamphlet from BBC Pride & Prejudice, getting snacks lined up for writing, and YouTubing toddlers who learned the 'Single Ladies' dance. I know. Isn't that horrible? So, basically, writing this piece took me the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. — Mindy Kaling

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. — Dag Hammarskjold

Very few of us relate to what it's like to be a hero. But everyone understands what it's like to fail. — Kathleen Tessaro

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One must not imitate what one wants to create. — Georges Braque

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put. — Lena Dunham

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools ... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years. — Thomas A. Edison

I was a girl, I learned, who got what she wanted, but not without sadness, not without cutting a swath of destruction so wide it consumed my family. I almost fell into it, with them. I almost lost myself. — Anton DiSclafani

It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can make so many promises that you get sick of yourself, but what is it that God can't do? — Monica Johnson