Arianna Huffington Quotes - Page 6

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

Before checking that last email before you go to bed, say to yourself, No, I am important. This is important. My body is more important.

It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.

Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.

It's time to sleep your way to the top.

Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

In many cases, we make sleep a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Sleep difficulties can turn into serious medical problems. For the vast majority of us, however, sleep difficulties are a lifestyle problem. Yet we tend to treat all our sleep-related woes the same way: with a pill.

You can complete a project by dropping it.

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

One of the main reasons I wrote The Sleep Revolution was to examine this ancient, essential, and mysterious phenomenon from all angles and to explore the ways we can use sleep to help regain control over our out-of-kilter lives.

Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.

Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

Our relationship with sleep is currently in crisis, but we're also living in a golden age of sleep science - revealing all the ways in which sleep and dreams play a vital role in our decision-making, emotional intelligence, cognitive function, and creativity. Every week, new research reveals how vital sleep is to our health, happiness, job performance, and relationships.

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Life is shaped from the inside out.

we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either.

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

I'm passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.