Nancy Gibbs Quotes

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

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• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Being
  • Writer
  • Before

• But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • World
  • Music
  • Striving

• The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Universe
  • Impossible
  • Writer

• In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination...

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Mind
  • Pain
  • Imagination

• Love has more depth as you get older.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• There's no guarantee, and there's no proper path to follow that will directly lead you to where you want to go, but stick with it. If you know in your bones that this is what you were put on this earth to do, and the world would be a darker place without you pursuing your dreams, then keep at it.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • World
  • Earth
  • Path

• 'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Beautiful
  • Emotional

• There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Taken

• I am the ultimate Jewish mother.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Mother

• I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.

  

  Kristen Johnston
  • Classy

• My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • People

• Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Business

• Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

  

  Alan Ladd
  • Power

• The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Life
  • Great
  • Author

• People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

  

  James Wolcott
  • People
  • Power
  • Ambition

• If I'm on a date, I don't want to talk business right away. Let it feel like a date. I don't want to talk about my job right then.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Business
  • Job

• The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Men

• Excuse me, Scopus," Beric said quietly, "I am perfectly ready to fight with this bragadocio, and challenge him to a contest; a few hard knocks will do neither of us any harm, therefore let us go into the school and have it out, It is much better so than to have perpetual quarrelling.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Fight
  • Ready
  • Perfectly

• You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • World
  • Love
  • For Her

• It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Brave
  • Efficient
  • Frontier

• A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Efficient
  • Perfectly
  • Runner