Bill Crawford Quotes

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

Bill Crawford

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• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Up
  • Political
  • Courage

• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Change

• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Friends
  • Earth
  • Change

• If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Diet

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Common Sense

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Problem
  • Wisdom
  • See

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• Food can change anything.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Food
  • Change
  • Anything

• People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Me
  • Courage

• When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Change
  • Me
  • Race

• The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Trust

• When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Time
  • Pretty

• Well, the most important thing in investing is to know what you're investing in, and if you're confident in the outcome, it's important to stay true to your position.

  

  John Paulson
  • Important
  • True

• It's emotional as well as economic, practical as well as personal, tangible as well as intangible.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Emotional
  • Economic

• I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

  

  George Packer
  • Work

• It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

  

  Christopher Hampton
  • Violence
  • Face
  • Ethics

• Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Change
  • Wisdom
  • Courage