Abby Wambach Quotes
I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
Quotes to Explore
-
Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
-
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
-
I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
-
This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
-
I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
-
I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
-
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
-
Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
-
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
-
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
-
Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
-
I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
-
I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
-
I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
-
I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
-
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
-
Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.
-
The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
-
People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
-
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
-
The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
-
I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
