Oprah Winfrey Quotes

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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• Perspective
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• My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Film
  • Favorite
  • Finale

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Time
  • Work
  • End

• Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Power
  • Revolution

• You just can't control your art in the future.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Future
  • Control

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Cool
  • Calm
  • Stay

• The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Policy
  • Source
  • Consistent

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Peace
  • Problem
  • Product

• I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Father
  • Sometimes
  • Jobs

• Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Die
  • Will
  • Without

• Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Education
  • Purpose

• A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Garment
  • Scrape

• I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Years
  • Dead
  • Just

• I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Always
  • Same
  • Leave

• There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Wisdom