Sara Blakely Quotes

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.

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• The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Problem
  • Fall
  • Air

• My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Focus

• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Should
  • Grandparents
  • Grandchildren

• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Strong
  • You
  • I Can

• I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Eye

• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Deception

• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • New
  • Circumstances
  • Course

• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Know
  • Year

• The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Coach
  • Quarterback
  • Swagger

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Doing
  • Everything
  • Knowing

• I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Time
  • Week
  • Doctor

• If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.… The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Today
  • Taken

• Either you are a man of unusual ability, Thorn, or a man with a rather inadequate grasp of human nature. I just hope it’s the former.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Nature
  • Hope

• People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • People

• I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Career
  • Single

• If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn't work. It doesn't feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Work
  • Edgy

• I'm a spiritual person.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Spiritual

• I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Supposed
  • Connected

• The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Up
  • Music
  • Technology

• And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

  

  Peter Davison
  • People
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Environment

• I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Future

• I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.

  

  Sara Blakely
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