Helen Keller Quotes

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

Helen Keller

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• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • New
  • Research

• Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Audience

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Age
  • Famous

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't move away from grief, rather through it.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Grief
  • Move
  • Rather

• What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Goal

• If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Possible

• Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

  

  Lajos Egri
  • People
  • Want
  • Remembered

• We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • May
  • Financial
  • Management

• Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Human
  • Anger

• Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Writing
  • Patience
  • Boring

• The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Character
  • Man
  • City

• Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Man
  • Being
  • Seen

• Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

  

  Donald Pleasence
  • Character

• All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Question
  • Trust
  • Trails

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Ideas

• I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Life