Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Age
  • Free
  • Child

• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Light
  • Support

• Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Interest
  • Decisions
  • Back

• Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Live
  • Myself
  • Conscience

• It would be a fruitless search to look through the Scriptures and find one single instance where Jesus did not treat women either equal or superior to men.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Single

• It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • World
  • Ugly

• There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Done

• Mess up and draft somebody at my position, because you are going to sit around and watch him sit the bench. That's always been my mentality. I see it as a challenge.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Up
  • Challenge

• If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Up
  • Magic

• True success for FEED would be the day we close our doors because world hunger is no more. Until that day, we measure our success through the number of products we are able to sell on our website and through stores, which translates into the number of meals we are able to donate.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • World
  • True
  • Success

• I like serving family-style or setting up a buffet. Everyone just goes to town, scoops their own food, and mixes their own drinks. You know how people love to come and watch you in the kitchen now and talk your ear off? If you give them something to do and something to drink, they don't do that as much.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

  

  Chen Guangbiao
  • Heart
  • Suffering

• Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.

  

  John Carroll Lynch
  • Great
  • Violence
  • Picture

• The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

  

  John W. Gardner
  • Free
  • Rest

• When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People
  • Team
  • Environment

• No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively. Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me. I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others. If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Responsibility

• It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society

• I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.

  

  Rain
  • Music
  • She
  • American

• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Heaven

• If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

  

  Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Teacher
  • Poet
  • Performer