Marcus Aurelius Quotes
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into 'the secrets of the nether world,' as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
Quotes to Explore
-
We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
-
I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
-
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
-
Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
-
I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
-
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
-
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
-
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
-
If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
-
I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
-
A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
-
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
-
If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
-
I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
-
My first priority is trying to protect my family.
-
When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
-
I grew up listening to an album start to finish, and you don't skip songs. You don't listen to a Paul Simon record and skip a song: you listen to it the same way you would eat a meal... the way the person who prepared that meal for you means for you to experience it. That's how you should do it before you add salt and pepper to it.
-
I think we live in a very competitive world, and I love competition.
-
If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.
-
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into 'the secrets of the nether world,' as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
