Amy Purdy Quotes

Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.

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• When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • People
  • World
  • Optimistic

• My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Writing
  • Family

• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Balance
  • Questions
  • Finding

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Die
  • Worry
  • Born

• The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Future
  • Hand
  • Security

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • True
  • House

• If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Giving
  • Best
  • Effort

• When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Food
  • Hand
  • Service

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • You
  • California
  • Oklahoma

• I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • Story
  • Part

• My education was very tough.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Education
  • Very
  • Tough

• Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on stage that are basically the same as TV or film.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel

• Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize a close friend to perform one plural marriage as late as 1906, and o.k.'d another one that occurred in 1907.

  

  D. Michael Quinn
  • Friend
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Die

• If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by the daily decisions you have to make, it's time to automate something.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Daily

• The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Time
  • Mind