Iyanla Vanzant Quotes
I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.
Quotes to Explore
-
The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
-
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
-
If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
-
I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
-
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
-
Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
-
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
-
Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
-
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
-
Cussing ain't for everybody.
-
When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
-
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
-
The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
-
When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
-
The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
-
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
-
The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.
-
If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.
-
I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.
-
Just going to the Olympics would be a dream come true. I could finish last, and it would still be an amazing experience.
-
MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.
-
I am writing this during my free . . . oops! un-assigned period, at the end of my first day of teaching. So far, I have taught nothing — but I have learned a great deal. To wit: We have to punch a time clock and abide by the Rules. We must make sure our students likewise abide, and that they sign the time sheet whenever they leave or reenter a room. We have keys but no locks (except in lavatories), blackboards but no chalk, students but no seats, teachers but no time to teach. The library is closed to the students.
-
I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.
