Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Perfect
  • Best
  • 10 anymore

• Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Day
  • Best

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • War
  • Parents

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Career
  • Wise
  • Greatest

• I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Day
  • Best

• By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Free
  • Law
  • Poverty

• This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Dark

• Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

  

  Christo

• I think Republicans are going to do better than Hillary Clinton any time of the day.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Time

• There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.

  

  Ben Rattray
  • People
  • Action
  • Cutting

• Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

  

  Dominique de Villepin
  • Peace
  • Taken
  • Achievement

• A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Movie
  • Lost
  • Independent

• I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

  

  Derek Fisher
  • Trying
  • Money

• What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

  

  Carole Bouquet
  • People
  • Beautiful

• My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it ‘uncertainty’. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, “You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Important
  • Information
  • Entropy

• You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Passion

• My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Pleasure

• It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates the words that he has used. And it would be fascinating to see a great director do his take on my work.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Work
  • Great
  • Song

• Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Truth
  • Existence
  • Spirituality