Tarepeak Quotes & Sayings

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility. — Herb Kelleher

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them ... Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking? — Khalil Gibran

I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that. — Roma Downey

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating — Michael Jordan

Goodness is an open gate to a great life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Objectivity works to repel the attacks of critics, like a kind of ethical pepper spray. — Brooke Gladstone

There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened. — Florence Scovel Shinn

We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else. — Ellen DeGeneres

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths. — George Horace Lorimer

My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens ... I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works. — Joseph Campbell

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal. — Jane Pauley