Wake Up Call Quotes - Page 2

• When I was 17, I blew out my knee bouldering, and I wasn't able to climb for a year. It was hard for me to have to stay away from what I love and what makes me happy. But it was a wake-up call to take care of my body and not be too reckless.

  Chris Sharma

  Years, Wake Up, Body

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• [Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.

  Jay Michaelson

  Dream, Cash, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

  Brett Favre

  Congratulations, Years, Storm

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• Most of all, I believe God has chosen to bless this series. In doing so, he's giving the country and maybe the world, one last, big wake-up call before the events transpire.

  Tim LaHaye

  Country, Believe, Giving

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• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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• There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later.

  Pat Toomey

  Country, Frustration, Majority

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• I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up."

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Writing, Europe, Feelings

  "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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• In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

  Henry Rollins

  Impact, America, Long

  "Dead Children in Afghanistan" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. April 18, 2013.

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• I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Character, Challenges

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• My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter...

  Savannah Guthrie

  Sound, Different, Wake Up

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2014

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• I've never believed protectionism of that kind will lead us anywhere. I think you can have certain specific rules for engaging with India.. for example, not allowing mineral resources to be taken out of the country.. but there is not a shred of doubt in my mind that when you open an economy you should do it in totality. Foreign investment adds a sense of competition; we should see this as a wake-up call to modernise and upgrade. Companies that do not will undoubtedly die.

  Ratan Tata

  Country, Taken, Thinking

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• In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their car while she went to buy liquor, she returned to find her daughter with tears running down her cheeks. The guilt and horror Ms. Robinson felt at this sight jolted her into sobriety.

  Anne Robinson

  Daughter, Running, Drinking

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• A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Organization, Future Leaders

  "Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization". Book by Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, December 13, 2005.

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• The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

  Rand Paul

  Kings, Obamacare, Justice

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• The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.

  Julie Burchill

  Fighting, People, Giving

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• Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Editors, Wake Up

  "Copy Desk: Don Podesta and Bill Walsh". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. February 16, 2005.

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• If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.

  Victoria Justice

  Thinking, Giving, Wake Up

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• In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Color, Gone Away, White

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• Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Needs, Wake Up

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• I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

  Adrian Rogers

  Sorry, Drinking, Beer

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.

  Lisa Bonet

  Wake Up, Want, Saved

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reasons to be positive. The economic downturn could be the catalyst for positive change. It should be translated into the wake-up call we need for a major change in aspirations and lifestyles to save humanity from the ecological and economic disaster that would otherwise result from continuing on the high carbon and resource depleting path we have been pursuing

  Phil Harding

  Continuing On, Humanity, Being Positive

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• Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment.

  Margaret MacMillan

  Book, Looks, Wake Up

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• The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.

  Adepero Oduye

  Dream, Father, Life Is Too Short

  "SUNDANCE FUTURES | “Pariah” Actress Adepero Oduye" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say.

  Maggie Smith

  Jobs, Stars, Thinking

  "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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