Wakingsr Quotes & Sayings

One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, "If it is to be, it is up to me." That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn't mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career. — Jim Rohn

There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious. — Wei Wu Wei

People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged. — Lorii Myers

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. — Tadao Ando

I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with. — Morgan Freeman

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful. — Allison Anders

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth ... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth? — Plato

If you want to be happy, it is necessary not to be too intelligent. — Gustave Flaubert

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation." — Katy Butler

I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something. — Sarah Dessen

Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely. — Daisy Ridley

I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song. — Maggie Nelson

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification. — Bill Bonner