Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Sue Monk Kidd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1948

Topics

WorkHomeSoulIdentityMeaning

There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.

Jen Kirkman

LifeGoodHeartWindowFlyLearn

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.

Andrew Shue

LifeWorkConfidenceCommunityMe

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

Maya Angelou

ChangeGoodPeopleStartWalking

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.

John Lanchester

MeEconomicsQuestionsMoralMore

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

John McEnroe

FocusYouLoseNeverAlwaysIntense

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

Robert Greenwald

PeopleInternetTalkingYouNowWay

If you coach, and coach every day, you should be getting better if you're self-evaluating and you've got people around you telling you the truth.

Jeff Van Gundy

TruthDayPeopleBetterYouCoach

I love being called a fashion icon!

Sonam Kapoor

LoveFashionBeingIconI Love

From what I hear, everyone who does a Marvel movie gets a three-picture deal. I'll be Sam Jackson's stand-in. I'll do eight pictures for Marvel, and then I'll just do indies. Marvel can pay for my indie career.

Sinqua Walls

CareerPicturesEveryonePayDeal

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

Ronald Isley

PeopleChanceThinkStandSomeone

My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.

Rosecrans Baldwin

MemoriesLosingHumanityYouLose

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

Julia Michaels

PeopleWantWhateverAssumeGoing

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