Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

Helen Gurley Brown

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Real
  • Family
  • Why

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Book
  • Place
  • Map

• I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Surprised

• Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Musical
  • Directions
  • Remind

• I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Trees
  • Fruit
  • Milk

• When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Live
  • Unknown
  • Plants

• I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Done
  • Weird
  • Doing

• The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • My Life

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

  

  Little Richard
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Hate

• As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Children

• During an Ecstasy, LSD or mushroom experience, many people feel unbounded compassion for others and themselves. During a trip, the typical boundaries of our identity dissolve and you're able to experience your unity with all dimensions of reality simultaneously. It can be overwhelming, but it can also be a guidepost and affirmation of the soul's mission in life. A good trip can help us see and feel how perfect, beautiful and precious the world is, despite news reports to the contrary we get from CNN.

  

  Alex Grey
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Business
  • Fear
  • Natural

• However,' said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, 'you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • School
  • Help

• I think normally people think that they're afraid to die but I actually think people are more afraid to live. People are more afraid to make the choices that they want because they're very hard decisions to make in order to be happy. I think a lot of people are really afraid of that. It's easy to be in a band because you have a lot of things to hide behind so that's really not always living...that doesn't always constitute as living life the way you want. But at times you have to make decisions that sometimes hurt others in order to live.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • Think
  • Afraid

• One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Achievement
  • Really
  • Complete

• I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Professional
  • Loss
  • Office

• Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Goal
  • Poverty
  • Guide

• Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Feelings
  • Talent
  • Force