I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened.… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I have struggled with perfectionism and I think it's a really damaging thing in my own life. When we put that perfectionism… — Rebecca St. James Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much a movie-to-movie guy. It's hard for me to multitask so I feel very one-thing-at-a-time oriented and I usually just… — Drake Doremus Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give… — Jaco Van Dormael Copy Share Image
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that… — Wendy O. Williams Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean,… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me… — John Feldmann Copy Share Image
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way.… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely. — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own… — Callie Thorne Copy Share Image
My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I understood…that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
[Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image