Cecelia Ahern Quotes

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

Cecelia Ahern

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• There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • World
  • Gifts

• Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Working Hard

• The market for local advertising is in the billions.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Market
  • Advertising
  • Local

• My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • School
  • Story
  • First

• The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Start
  • Foundation
  • Fitness

• When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Focus

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Desert

• I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Mind
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Song
  • Strange

• In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Football
  • Television

• If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Character

• The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • God
  • May
  • Dance

• There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Way

• The key to success is to develop a winning edge.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Winning
  • Keys

• Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • Faith
  • Focus
  • Generosity

• From the moment we wake up each morning to the time we hit the pillow at night, we hear what people have to say, but are we really listening?

  

  Mac Anderson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

  

  William Barrett
  • Civilization
  • Philosopher

• Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosophy
  • Search
  • Judgement

• A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Philosophy

• I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Game
  • Give
  • Filmmaking

• You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Time
  • Question
  • Focus

• I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Philosophy
  • Changed
  • Stones