Whitney Port Quotes

Find what you love and find a way to make that part of your every day. You have to find the confidence to take certain risks. You're going to hear a lot of no's before you get to the yes'. It's important to have that confidence to overcome that and know it's part of trying to grow something big.

Whitney Port

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• You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • You
  • Realize

• You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Life
  • Run
  • Wait

• I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Great
  • Fiction
  • Favourite

• The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Real
  • Society
  • Focus

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • True
  • English
  • Honest

• For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Me
  • Like

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Leadership
  • Organization

• If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Sometimes

• Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Details

• When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Laugh

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Age
  • Past

• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Finish

• I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• We must secure our borders and restore the rule of law, and more than anyone running, Ted Cruz has fought to make this nation secure while protecting our constitutional rights.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Law
  • Running
  • Nation

• Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Beautiful
  • Always
  • Glass

• I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why I have the work habits of a 20-year-old coder, but no matter how many times I set up a more reasonable schedule, I always fall back to this.

  

  Jenny Offill
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Life
  • Important
  • Home

• I feel like it's really important for an actor to play different roles so people can see, "Oh, he can play that guy or he can play this guy." You're not just "THAT guy," that cowboy guy, that whatever guy. Then you are limiting yourself.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

  

  Joe Montana
  • Time

• Find what you love and find a way to make that part of your every day. You have to find the confidence to take certain risks. You're going to hear a lot of no's before you get to the yes'. It's important to have that confidence to overcome that and know it's part of trying to grow something big.

  

  Whitney Port
  • Important
  • Confidence
  • Find