Esperanza Spalding Quotes

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

Esperanza Spalding

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• The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Future
  • Enjoy
  • Matter

• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • World
  • Live
  • Write

• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Simple
  • Proud
  • Issues

• There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Future
  • Limits

• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Friends
  • College

• I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Gifts

• I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Childhood

• The feeling that we call 'I' seems to define our point of view in every moment, and it also provides an anchor for popular beliefs about souls and freedom of will. And yet this feeling, however imperturbable it may appear at present, can be altered, interrupted, or entirely abolished.

  

  Sam Harris
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • May
  • Excellence

• That cold January day - and so many people... I'd never imagined it would happen nowadays.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People
  • Cold

• It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

  

  Alice Meynell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Nature

• 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

• Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

  

  Albert Ellis

• There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I sometimes have dreams that my assistant director is waking me up and trying to get me to the set.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Up
  • Trying

• Personally, fresh air and exercise help me stay healthy and make me feel great!

  

  Charlotte Casiraghi
  • Great
  • Help
  • Air

• I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Experience

• When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

  

  William Gurnall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Prayer

• I have sinned against you, my Lord.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• When things don't go your way, you brush it aside and carry on. Don't take what you have for granted. Enjoy what you have.

  

  Asa Butterfield

• You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Mind
  • Scared
  • Fearless