Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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Quotes tagged ‘inspiration’
For medical communities, hope is getting harder and harder to come by.
Sometimes I have no ideas at all, and start furiously mapping out plans for a second career, Googling how long it would take to become a botanist.
I love how you inspire me to jack off.
— Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Nick Kroll, Mark Levin, Nick Birch, Nick Kroll, imdb.com
I remember I did karate as a kid, at the Jewish Community Center, and when I started I was the worst in the class, I was the worst of 25 Jewish kids who were afraid of getting picked on. And then just because everyone else quit, three years later I was at the top of the class, and there were 25 Jewi…
— Seth Rogen, gq.com
Complaints have no magic.
Swedish artist Hilma af Klint passed away in 1944 at the age of 81 and left behind more than 1,000 works that she had kept private. She believed that the world “was not ready for her art,” so she asked that the pieces remain unseen for another two decades.
A book is a person’s best friend.
As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time. So now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oom…
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
You don't need a negative state to propel you.
I was just a young lawyer thinking, What am I doing with my life? What am I doing with my career? As I watched [Hillary Clinton] on that stage I thought, Why aren’t I there? It was so poignant for me. And that’s what made me figure out how to get involved in politics.
[sings] I was the one who had it all, I was the master of my fate / I never needed anybody in my life, I learned the truth too late / I'll never shake away the pain, I close my eyes but she's still there / I let her steal into my melancholy heart, it's more than I can bear / Now I know she'll never…
— Stephen Chbosky, Evan Spiliotopoulos, Beast, Dan Stevens, imdb.com
Go see 'Hidden Figures,' and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best, and are prepared.
I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.
for the boy who lived. thank you for inspiring me to be the girl who survived. you may have a lightning bolt to show for it, but my body is a lightning storm.
We got to stop staring at our toes and start staring at the fucking moon.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
I like to keep "office hours" meaning pretty much 10-6 in the office working on various projects. If something is due I might go late, overtime, but usually prefer evenings to be open.
I need my bed made before I start writing.
Sometimes I feel inspired. Sometimes I don't. Waiting...