Katrina Mayer Quotes
Life is short so... Take some chances visit the mountains, walk on the beach, say "I love you", hug often, laugh every day, practice unconditional forgiveness.
Quotes to Explore
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Canada is a big part of my life.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.
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What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
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My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
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Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
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I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.
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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
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I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.
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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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Life is short so... Take some chances visit the mountains, walk on the beach, say "I love you", hug often, laugh every day, practice unconditional forgiveness.
