Brenda Shoshanna Quotes

Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.

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• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • War
  • America

• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Music
  • Die
  • Proud

• I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Time
  • Speak

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  

  Man Ray
  • Power
  • Genius
  • His

• I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • People
  • Trying
  • Home

• Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Say
  • Citizens
  • Been

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Motivational
  • Machine

• CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Like
  • Passionate
  • Benefit

• If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • She
  • Woman

• Reason has moons, but moons not hersLie mirror'd on her sea,Confounding her astronomers,But, O! delighting me.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Sea
  • Mirror

• I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Challenge
  • Destiny

• Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Children
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Up
  • Job

• General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Character

• The only people who make love all the time are liars.

  

  Louis Jordan
  • People
  • Time

• I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.

  

  Charles Edison
  • High
  • Fall
  • Service

• I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • God
  • Worry

• I remember feeling a huge amount of anxiety and worry and pressure. At that point I was headed into acting school. That was 100 percent the only thing I thought I wanted to do. But then I got through my first year of college, and I was, like, humming and rolling around, pretending to be a lion in acting classes at NYU and visiting our classmate Charlie Gregg at Harvard, where he was actually learning things. So I changed my mind: I decided I actually wanted a different kind of education, and that was an incredibly freeing idea.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Different
  • Mind
  • School

• Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Real
  • Power
  • Violence

• When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

  

  Martin Millar
  • Good

• I like the way I feel when I'm healthy; it makes me feel lively.

  

  Ashley Roberts
  • Feel
  • Healthy
  • Lively

• Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Worry
  • Find Out
  • Zen