Gretchen Rubin Quotes

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Gretchen Rubin

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ConfidenceDayPeopleStartEnergy

Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

Jenna Bush

WalkTiredEnergyYouUpLevel

Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

Andy Behrman

New YorkThoughtsNightFlyingTrain

I was part of the generation that was supposed to become doctors.

Robert Picardo

GenerationBecomePartSupposed

Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

Robert Irwin

LightYouLookAirWithoutJust

Europe must not distance itself from Africa's universal ambitions.

Jean-Claude Juncker

DistanceAfricaEuropeMustItself

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.

Liz Williams

ModernShapedAnyDiverseAuthors

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Joni Eareckson Tada

SchoolSocietyHigh SchoolHonor

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

Jonathan Haidt

TeamBlindRealityYouComplicated

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

Drew Barrymore

EyesStartThinkSomeoneYouLook

Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflect back its 'whatness,' refracted through the sensibility of his consciousness.

David Shields

CultureBackKindReflectThrough

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

Colman Domingo

WritingThinkPlaySoloMostDid

Your heart... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it.

Anne-Marie Duff

HeartCareTake CareYouMuscle

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