Elyn Saks Quotes

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Theater dates very quickly.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Very
  • Theater
  • Quickly

• What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Lost

• To oppose something is to maintain it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Something
  • Maintain
  • Oppose

• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Great
  • Office

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Question
  • Dating
  • Take

• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Success
  • Team

• My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
  • Author

• I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Think
  • Competition

• For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Good
  • New
  • Enjoyment

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I think penguins are cute.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Cute

• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • People
  • Power
  • Powerful

• If we stay focused on data and the real issues, we can tailor our inventions to enhance public health and safety while decreasing the likelihood of racial discrimination.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Real
  • Health
  • Safety

• I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.

  

  Yuna
  • Book
  • Inspired
  • Keep

• Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

  

  Elyn Saks
  • Mind
  • Powerful