Jane Pauley Quotes

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

Jane Pauley

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• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Self

• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Person

• I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Early

• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • My Life

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Look
  • Down

• It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stop

• My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Book
  • Never

• No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Business
  • Experience

• If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Action
  • Kind

• NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

  

  Burt Rutan
  • Risk
  • Innovation

• Any yellow, any blue, any red and a white are all I need.

  

  Andrew McDermott
  • Need
  • Yellow

• I'm geeky about video games. I don't stay inside a lot and just play them 24/7, but if I had the chance, I probably would.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee

• I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Life