Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sigmund Freud

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Shakti Gawain

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Steven Cojocaru

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

Steven Pinker

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Stevie Nicks

I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

Robert Browning

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Randy Pausch

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

Randy Pausch

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Rachel Weisz

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

Michelle Obama

You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

Michelle Obama

We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

Sholom Aleichem

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Shonda Rhimes

I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself.

Shonda Rhimes

I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.

Shonda Rhimes

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

Shonda Rhimes

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Sherman Alexie

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

Seth Godin

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Seth Godin

Marketing begins before the product is launched.

Seth Godin

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Tom DeLay

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

Solange Knowles

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

Sloane Crosley

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

Rajneesh

Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

Rajneesh

Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence

Soichiro Honda

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Sojourner Truth

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Mitch Albom

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

Neil Gaiman

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

Neil Gaiman

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

John Muir

Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.