Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes

Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?

Carol Plum-Ucci

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• Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Happens

• I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • God
  • Believe
  • Happy

• From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Work
  • Problems
  • Physics

• Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • War

• Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Up
  • High

• By setting our motivation strongly in the morning when our mind is fresh and clear, we are much more likely to remember it during the day and act with that intention

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Morning

• No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Right
  • Temptation

• The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Week

• Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Science
  • Course
  • Truths

• See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.

  

  Luther Vandross Chic
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Mood

• We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Afraid
  • Teaching

• I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Cute

• I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Baby
  • Stage
  • Breeze

• But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Read
  • Code
  • Invented

• I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Live
  • Never
  • Looking

• I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.

  

  Gavin Friday
  • Writing
  • Wine
  • Numb

• I think I've always sort of been on the more boyish spectrum of girls. For example, I've never been chosen as 'one of the top-five hottest actresses in a bikini.' And honestly, it's a godsend. When I was younger, I'd think, 'Oh, I'm the prettiest one. It's not Halle Berry. It's not!' But it is, you know?

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Honestly

• Be aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the answers to your questions in every moment of the day.

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • Moments
  • Attraction
  • Receiving

• Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?

  

  Carol Plum-Ucci
  • Honestly