Missy Franklin Quotes

I am the luckiest girl in the world. I learned that if I just keep a positive mental attitude, that I can go out there and do whatever I hope I can do. It's all mental in getting out there, and having confidence in myself, and having strength and knowing I can do it.

Missy Franklin

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• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Game
  • Player

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • World
  • Parents
  • Amazing

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first.

  

  Garth Davis
  • World
  • Find
  • Start

• I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Different
  • Soccer

• Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

  

  Jack Germond
  • World
  • Real
  • Pictures

• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • World
  • Energy
  • Kind

• Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • World
  • Name

• We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • World
  • Different
  • Small

• In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • World
  • Power
  • Value

• We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

  

  Major Owens
  • World
  • Need
  • Terrorism

• For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World

• The program for this evening is not new. You have seen This entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death; you might recall all of the rest - (did you have a good world when you died?) - enough to base a movie on?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Life
  • World
  • Mind

• Many kinds of processes are at work in the world around us, and they are all superimposed on, and interact with, each other in complicated ways.

  

  Alan Chalmersun
  • World
  • Processes
  • Interact

• When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

  

  Vanna White
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Soup

• I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Cold
  • Mercy

• You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

  

  Suzanne Weyn
  • Know
  • Going
  • Get

• I am the luckiest girl in the world. I learned that if I just keep a positive mental attitude, that I can go out there and do whatever I hope I can do. It's all mental in getting out there, and having confidence in myself, and having strength and knowing I can do it.

  

  Missy Franklin
  • World
  • Attitude
  • Having