Simon Travaglia Quotes

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

Simon Travaglia

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• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Me

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • God
  • Done
  • Power

• My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Children
  • Husband

• I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Change
  • Personality
  • Smile

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Smile

• I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • American
  • Effort
  • Filmmaking

• Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich

• Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Best
  • Effort

• We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Time
  • Work
  • Focus

• If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break In music, sweeter than it ever gave, As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake, And laughs in every wave.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Music
  • She
  • Smile

• Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Girl

• It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It’s impossible, and if it isn’t impossible, it’s irrelevant, and if it isn’t either of those things, it’s embarrassing.

  

  Philip Pullman

• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• I think the big thing is keeping positive energy in the clubhouse. The amount of time we spend in there and spend together carries over into what you do on the field.

  

  Matt Harvey
  • Time
  • Together
  • Energy

• Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • College
  • Listening

• I'm not going to say she hasn't tried alcohol and drugs. She's gone through everything every other teenager does.

  

  Priscilla Presley
  • She
  • Teenager
  • Alcohol

• Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

  

  Simon Travaglia
  • Effort
  • Smile
  • Allowing