Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

Elizabeth Gilbert

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WorkSuccessMeWorldBookForward

I can't do much about my height, but I can do a lot of things in strength and speed and work on that. I'm going to try to do that the best I can to make me a better ballplayer.

Andrew Benintendi

WorkStrengthBestMeBetterSpeed

We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they're seldom enforced.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

EnvironmentalWorldStrongProblem

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

Maurice Sendak

ChildrenRespectBestWorldDeep

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

Anna Popplewell

LifeEducationAgeSchoolMy Life

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

Michael Chang

OpportunityDayRoadYearLookNew

When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.

Toussaint Louverture

TimeJusticeSilenceGovernmentMe

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Ross MacDonald

MeTryingBackTurnGreatestMyth

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

Michael Nesmith

IntelligencePeopleMoonThinking

I have such sister compassion for women in uniform in life, principally, because now I know how incredibly uncomfortable those uniforms are on top of all the other things they're dealing with that are far more important.

Janet Varney

LifeWomenCompassionSisterUniform

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

Chili Davis

GoodSucceedSocietyProfessionalism

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.

Alison Goldfrapp

ShoppingSickFeelFindHotGet

I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that on the surface creates growth and profit, ends up with waste, junk, and CO2. So how do you make it economic to bring new players into the ball game?

Peter Senge

GrowthGameYouProfitCreateNew

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