Sara Blakely Quotes

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

Sara Blakely

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• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• What's drinking?A mere pause from thinking!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Thinking
  • Drinking

• But we need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking. That means strengthening and renewing our key alliances.

  

  Al Gore
  • Thinking

• A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Mankind
  • Levels

• I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Thinking

• I have a massive hat collection, which includes many, many fedoras I haven't worn because of the stigma. I buy them thinking, 'I'm going to make people accept fedoras!' But with the way I dress, if I wore a fedora, I'd be in the camp that gives them a bad name.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• 'Ragtime' was the most magical show that I've done. I had an incredible experience with that, with the show itself, with the cast, with the audience. The response to that show - my God, it really blew me away, the reactions to that show, the way it changed their lives and altered their thinking, their own self-discovery.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Done

• If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

  

  Eric Bogosian
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

  

  Charles Henry Parkhurst
  • Great
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Being an actor is a lot more involved than many people realize; there are hundreds of ways to play any character. Even for a stylized bad guy, there are 4 or 5 different personalities I can play off the top of my head without thinking - better and more experienced actors can do dozens or hundreds.

  

  Conan Stevens
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Money

• If there is a camera or someone making a picture or - just do the things you always want to do, because if you start thinking about everything, then you start changing the things you would do. And that's not the life you want to live.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  

  Michael Crichton
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Awareness

• One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Prayer
  • I Love
  • Forgiveness

• Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Book
  • Government
  • Dragons

• If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Product
  • Selling

• The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Thinking
  • Numbers
  • Mortality