Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

Jewel Kilcher

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Love
  • Singing

• In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I busted my butt all my life building companies.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Building

• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • West
  • Iran

• I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Know
  • Moon

• An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • World
  • Artist
  • Influence

• Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Perfection
  • Got
  • Bitcoin

• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • English
  • Kid
  • Talk

• When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Police

• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Dreams

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Know

• There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Think
  • Friendships

• Her general drift was clear enough: we were all very special, being Hailsham students, and so it was all the more disappointing when we behaved badly.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro

• I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Together
  • Battle

• The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

  

  Manika
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Travel

• Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Good
  • Husband

• The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Nature
  • Fear