Sara Blakely Quotes

I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe.

Sara Blakely

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• I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Artist

• Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Self-Worth

• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• 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

• If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Thinking
  • Food
  • Amazing

• I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 'There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Stop

• Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Book

• It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Thinking

• I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • Up
  • Different
  • Thinking

• You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Thinking

• I'm just thinking about being the best I can be for the team first because that's what comes first.

  

  Aly Raisman
  • Thinking
  • Team

• We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Brain

• You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • War

• There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

  

  Plato
  • Thinking
  • Soul

• There is a history of thinking about space science from an environmental ethics perspective. And part of what I want to do is turn that back and use that experience to see if it reflects how we think about the Earth.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • History

• School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • World
  • Thinking
  • School

• So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'

  

  Raekwon
  • Real
  • Help
  • Attention

• I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Writing
  • Game
  • Games

• The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Way
  • Maps

• A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Time
  • Film
  • Resemble

• I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Thinking
  • Safe