Straubinger Quotes & Sayings

The most important thing to me about energy is mental, not physical. By that I mean to say, the easiest way I've found to create sustained enthusiasm is to be absolutely head-over-hells in love with what you do. — Matthew Hussey

Mind has door. A password can open it.
That word is stored safely in your heart,
waiting for your willingness to retrieve it. — Toba Beta

Being content isn't good enough. You deserve so much more - passion, joy, and excitement... — Nancee Cain

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge — John Locke

A good pilot knows her skills, has confidence in the machine she is flying, and is aware of what actions are required in case of a hurricane, or in case the wings ice over. Therefore she is confident in her ability to cope with whatever weather conditions may arise - not because she will force the plane to obey her will, but because she will be the instrument for matching the properties of the plane to the conditions of the air. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened. — Alessandro Manzoni

I WANT TO CUT THROUGH THE SPACE THAT SEPERATES US. — Gayle Forman

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us. — Marshall Ganz

I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people. — Al Franken

Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous. — Maya Angelou

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control. — Antony Beevor

What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to attain stability. This is like the case of the fertile field, which cannot produce good crops as long as the weeds are not cleared away. Cravings and ruminations are the weeds of the mind; if you do not clear them away, concentration and wisdom do not develop. — Zhang Sanfeng

Every cloud doesn't have a silver lining but making time to look at the beauty of clouds can give you peace of mind — C.L. Bennett