Lisa Ling Quotes

Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.

Lisa Ling

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• For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Self-Worth

• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Good
  • Different
  • Thinking

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Failure

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Sitting

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Negative
  • Hungry
  • Days

• Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Man

• What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Drawing

• I spend my money like I don't have anything.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Like
  • Spend

• I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Man

• When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • First

• I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • King

• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Feminist

• I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Film
  • Stories
  • Actor

• I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Running

• There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Edge

• If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think.

  

  Walter Mischel
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Knows

• I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Life
  • Cancer

• Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Thinking
  • Days
  • Spend