Alex Trebek Quotes

The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.

Alex Trebek

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• Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Together
  • Working Together

• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Together
  • Change

• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • America
  • Visionary

• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Way
  • Change
  • Proactive

• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Lost
  • Conversation
  • Slow

• I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Time
  • School
  • Pretty

• Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Feel

• There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • America
  • Nature

• The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Witch
  • Trials
  • Muslim

• I have never known stage-fright at any time.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Time
  • Never
  • Known

• When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Voice
  • New
  • New York

• We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Teach

• When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Today
  • Want
  • Tomorrow

• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

  

  Aristotle
  • War
  • Cowardice
  • Controls

• If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

  

  Gary Smalley
  • Wife
  • Emotions
  • Communicate

• I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.

  

  Walter Besant
  • Blood
  • Creature
  • Lawyers

• The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Want
  • Happiness
  • Secret