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Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done

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• Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Why
  • Best
  • Thought

• My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Me
  • Say

• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Inspired

• If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Positive

• I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Important
  • Help

• My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kids
  • Person
  • Inspire

• I want to inspire, and be inspired.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Inspire

• I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Important
  • Children
  • Positive

• We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.

  

  Jay-Z
  • World
  • Kids
  • History

• I'm used to being behind a camera. That's much more natural for me. But if my life can inspire people, that's what I have to do. My idea is to be of service.

  

  Zana Briski
  • People
  • Life
  • Ideas

• Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Inspire

• It's my hope to inspire kids around the world to want to be tech stars in stem subjects.

  

  will.i.am
  • World
  • Kids
  • Inspire

• Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.

  

  William James
  • Soul
  • Philosophy
  • Inspire

• I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Expected
  • Ministers
  • Retiring

• I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Joy

• What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to the idea of always moving around. ...Obviously, whenever you're going through something that's the best time to create, if you're going through something amazing, or horrible, or nothing at all you should be creating. Unfortunately the songwriters of today generally torture themselves to make sure they're writing good songs and take it a little too seriously.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Moving

• I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Work
  • Important
  • Friends

• The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Live
  • Always
  • Lies

• Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the therapist helps one to 'release' the neck muscles, it is amazing to see quite pronounced movements for instance of the toes, even when one is lying on a couch.

  

  Nikolaas Tinbergen
  • Pressure
  • Muscles
  • Movements

• Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done

  

  Mickey Rooney
  • Inspire
  • Retiring