Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

Gretchen Rubin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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LovePeopleWaysI LoveCategories

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

John Lee Hancock

WorkMottoYourselfAmericaGoalUp

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Robert Kiyosaki

WarPeopleWorldCreditEconomyOut

Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.

Stephen Sondheim

DoubtNewMatterProjectSingle

I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've gotten to work with some very talented actors - James Gandolfini, Treat Williams. I've kind of always asked for advice and tried to take in as much as I could whenever working with them.

Steven R. McQueen

WorkBlessedTreatAdviceDoneKind

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

Mason Cooley

FearCrueltyPity

I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.

Louise Leakey

WorkChangeTimeThinkPictureLook

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

Julia Leigh

MyselfDayNightFridayForgetSee

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Wislawa Szymborska

YouFindCosmosObjectsRemarkable

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.

Philippe Petit

NatureAgeMyselfPerfectionEnergy

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

Penn Jillette

PeopleDownPlaceCensorshipRight

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

Rick Riordan

TeacherClassroomStillMuchLarger

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.

Richard P. Feynman

PuzzleGetOffOnce

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