Patti Smith Quotes
I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
Patti Smith
Quotes to Explore
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
Kate Voegele
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
Yoko Ono
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
Barbara Johnson
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
Gabriel Luna
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
Ted Dekker
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
Zach Johnson
The Fray
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
Samantha Power
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
Ice Cube
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Zedong
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
Karen Finerman
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
R. Kelly
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My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father's work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad's legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s.
Keith Ellison
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Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities.
M. Russell Ballard
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I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.
Emily Dickinson
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I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
Patti Smith
