Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes
If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
Quotes to Explore
-
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
-
I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
-
I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
-
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
-
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
-
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
-
Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.
-
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
-
I really wanted to work and become independent.
-
Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
-
I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
-
Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
-
Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
-
Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.
-
I like to space out my work.
-
Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
-
Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
-
The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
-
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
-
I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
-
Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.
-
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
-
Public radio has always been so powerless.
-
If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
