Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.
Quotes to Explore
-
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
-
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
-
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
-
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
-
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
-
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
-
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
-
In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
-
Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
-
When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
-
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
-
Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
-
We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.
-
Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.
-
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
-
I'm very religious.
-
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
-
I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
-
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
-
A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.
-
People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
-
I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.
