Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Katherine Mansfield

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• No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Thoughts

• A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Smile
  • Warm

• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Creative
  • Opportunities

• Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Power
  • Words

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Paris

• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Always
  • Find
  • Racism

• I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fall

• As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Political
  • Education
  • Health

• I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • May
  • Today
  • Hate

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Hate
  • City

• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Moments

• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Season
  • Starting

• That song ["Money to Burn"] is me being a fly on the wall in situations in LA. I mean, I've seen the way a lot of people operate and I've seen that sort of thing go down. There's a lot of rich kids with a little bit of extra money.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • People
  • Money
  • Kids

• There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.

  

  Bernd Heinrich
  • Running
  • Savage
  • Irrational

• I hope that I will be able to work all of my life - even when I am older. It's easier to do that in Europe than in America, because in America it is difficult for older actresses to find work.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • America

• I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • Boy

• We reckon the music industry is kind of like travelling freak shows. 'Cause, you know, travelling around from town to town, unpacking and packing up, and you meet all these freaks along the way. You meet good people as well but you do meet a lot of idiots. I'm not mentioning any names.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Travelling
  • Music Industry
  • Freaks

• Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

  

  Katherine Mansfield
  • Life
  • Different
  • Attitude