William Bridges Quotes
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
Yao Ming -
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
Mamie Gummer -
A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
Wayne Dyer -
I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
Taylor Swift -
I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
Kate Beckinsale -
In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.
Kai Bird
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Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.
Fabrizio Moreira -
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright -
There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Aaron Sorkin -
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
Yusef Lateef -
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. Wells -
You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.
Chris Pine
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SECRETS ARE LIESSHARING IS CARINGPRIVACY IS THEFT
Dave Eggers -
The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.
Kevin Spacey -
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
W. G. Sebald -
All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.
Walter de La Mare -
Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
Simon Sinek -
The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
Eugen Herrigel
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Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.
Fiona Apple -
Where there is no love there is no understanding.
Oscar Wilde -
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Tom Stoppard -
It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.
William Bridges