David Muir Quotes

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• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• I like to get to bed with a clear head.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Like
  • Clear
  • Bed

• Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Home
  • Today
  • Win

• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Book
  • College
  • Graduation

• We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Future
  • Know
  • Best

• I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Words
  • Light
  • Moving

• Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Chance
  • Trump
  • Successful

• I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Business
  • Dying
  • Losing

• I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Single

• I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Remember
  • Say
  • Down

• My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Direction
  • Turn

• All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Good
  • Done
  • Career

• I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Long
  • Kind

• Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • History
  • Past

• I don't do social media.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Media
  • Social
  • Social Media

• If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Artist
  • Voice
  • Impact

• My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Facts
  • Errors
  • Overthrow

• I need a distance to my characters when I write.

  

  Lena Andersson
  • Distance

• I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to read about it, seen all the footage and the documentaries. I found it really chilling in a personal way - the question of people submitting all their personal power and agency and independent thought it the name of a group or ideology. I could not find a way to write about it directly that didn't feel too heavy.

  

  Danzy Senna
  • People
  • Long
  • Writing

• What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Feelings
  • Conscious
  • Terror

• EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.

  

  Anant Agarwal

• I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• I can report from the field with a tiny camera and a laptop.

  

  David Muir