Inspiration Quotes - Page 105

No artist tolerates reality.

Knowledge is power.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I'm not a film star; I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.