Vaneza Mendoza Quotes & Sayings

There's something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they're by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief. — Charles Duhigg

Perhaps the problem is not that we didn't work well enough together, but that we worked to well. In fact, maybe if we hadn't worked so well together, we wouldn't be destroying the earth so rapidly. — Steve Van Matre

They terrify lest they should fear. — Tacitus

I think I look good. I think I look real good. — Ruben Studdard

Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions. — Abraham Zaleznik

If I could make crazy money just doing stand-up, that's what I would do. — Jen Kirkman

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me. — Alicia Keys

Advisers were numberless in Kabul, like stray dogs in Mumbai. — Zia Haider Rahman

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. — Ronald Reagan

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular. — Thomas Keneally

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle. — Bill Hader

When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him. — Russell M. Nelson

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I try to think about positive things - how great my form is, how my arms are swinging, my breathing, how loud people are cheering. My sports psychologist taught me there are a million things telling you you can't keep going, but if you find the things that say you can, you're golden. — Kara Goucher

There is no greater gift than time. — Jonathan Safran Foer