Alan Mulally Quotes

The purpose of life is to love and be loved... what could possibly be more energizing than that?

Alan Mulally

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• From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Purpose
  • Perspective

• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Change

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Data

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Hobby

• I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Never

• I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • True
  • Think

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Take Care

• I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Cool

• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Life
  • Art
  • Poetry

• The big message is that we need to reimagine and re-engineer how we work - what does work mean and how do we measure what's good? The second thing we need to reimagine is our relationships - who does what and why? One of the biggest things that has helped me and my husband is coming up with a common set of standards about what it takes to run our house, what is a fair way to divide tasks, and how are we going to keep each other accountable?

  

  Brigid Schulte
  • Work
  • Message
  • Reimagine

• I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Scene
  • Whole
  • Showbiz

• I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Time
  • Celebrity

• The purpose of life is to love and be loved... what could possibly be more energizing than that?

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Life
  • Purpose