Abigail Disney Quotes

There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.

Abigail Disney

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Me
  • Best
  • Thought

• The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Actions
  • Active

• I love Bridget Fonda.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fonda

• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Masterpiece

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
  • Talk
  • Little Girls

• I'm happiest when I'm moving.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Moving
  • Happiest

• Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Picture
  • Eye
  • Goal

• I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Bridge

• Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Best
  • Challenge

• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Crazy

• I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • School
  • Age
  • Working

• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Thought
  • Design

• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  

  Barbara Block
  • People
  • Want
  • Sharks

• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Time
  • Science
  • Trust

• In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Great
  • Kindness

• In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Up
  • Real
  • Law

• There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you're making, and I feel like if I didn't do that I just wouldn't know, and I don't think my music would be the same.

  

  Zach Condon
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Earth
  • Taken
  • Woman