Joy Fielding Quotes

The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

Joy Fielding

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• Reaching

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• When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Up
  • Parents

• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Between

• Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Most

• I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Love
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
  • Unique
  • Trees
  • Gum

• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
  • Start
  • Early

• I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Work
  • Giving

• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Everything

• We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Father

• Aber Demokratie ist nicht immer eine Sache von einsamen Entscheidungen, sondern in der Regel ein Geschäft der Meinungsbildung vieler.

  

  Angela Merkel

• How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

  

  David Gergen
  • Future
  • Heaven

• You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.

  

  Jacques Santer
  • Help

• As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • Beautiful
  • Peace

• Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Mother
  • Challenge

• It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Character

• I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Boy

• Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Men
  • Women
  • Simple

• Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Country
  • Family
  • May

• Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Up
  • Career
  • Control

• I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People
  • Friends
  • Teacher

• The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

  

  Conrad Hall

• There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.

  

  E. B. White
  • English
  • Chance
  • Doe

• The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

  

  Joy Fielding
  • Control
  • Give Up
  • Reaching