Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

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• I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • You
  • Running
  • Feel

• I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Real
  • History

• If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Up
  • Change
  • End

• If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Start

• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
  • Career
  • Always

• Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Done
  • Living
  • Citizenship

• Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • House
  • Law

• I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Music
  • Things
  • Architecture

• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Story
  • Mankind

• As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.

  

  Dana Priest
  • World
  • Intelligence

• I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Teacher
  • Only
  • Got

• You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • History
  • Day

• Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Good
  • Work
  • Education

• Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Me
  • Goal

• If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

  

  Sam Dew
  • Done
  • Fun
  • Year

• I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Struggle

• Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.

  

  Bonnie St. John
  • Society
  • Woman
  • Confidence

• A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

  

  Chris Morris

• The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Contribute

• I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

  

  Everett Ruess
  • Drunk
  • Fiery

• I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.”

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Men
  • Trying
  • School

• I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison