Gretchen Rubin Quotes

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

Gretchen Rubin

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WordsYourselfSpiritualWaitingMe

I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how not to be perfect.

Melissa Peterman

ExperienceMomWritingShortPerfect

I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.

Ander Crenshaw

LeadershipWordsThinkYouMore

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

St. Jerome

WarSurviveFriendsSeventyDead

In every country I've gone to, if you smile at people, they are going to be happy. This is my attitude.

Son Heung-min

SmileAttitudeHappyPeopleBe Happy

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

Simon Rattle

MusicPeopleListenNeedBringEven

I'm not trying to project any persona. Often people don't know where to put me. I don't fit comfortably under banners, and that's fine. I'm not worried about not making sense to people. That's probably my best asset.

Riz Ahmed

BestPeopleMeTryingKnowProject

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

Robert Vaughn

MoneyMeEnoughHighBeingClear

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

Marty Meehan

ViewSayOwnUnitedPollsPercent

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

Monica Bellucci

BeingActress

In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.

Joyce Giraud

LifeEatingMy LifeNeverDisorder

I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.

Josh Homme

DesertYearYouThreeEverything

In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

DepressionWarSlaveryAmericaYou

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