Wake Up Quotes - Page 20

• If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book.

  John Mayer

  Morning, Coffee, Book

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• The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

  Lu Xun

  Dream, Things In Life, People

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• I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

  Ben Barnes

  Dream, Fall, Waking

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• The world is waiting for you to wake up to the person you are called to be. Stop listening to the negative inner conversation that's causing you to play small. Focus your mind on positive thoughts, possibilities and solutions that can move you forward. Tap into your creativity and determination and stay busy. Stay focused.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Encouragement, Determination

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• Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

  Carlos Santana

  Opportunity, Roaming Around, Band

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• One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Sweat, Cold

  "MovieWeb Gets Personal With The 40 Year Old Virgin Director Judd Apatow". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. December 13, 2005.

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• Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.

  Steven Conrad

  Running, Race, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have two kids who were like me, we get out of bed feeling good, and the other two would sit at the breakfast table and grumble. I think it's born into us. I usually wake up feeling pretty good. Looking forward to the day.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Thinking, Two

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

  Misty Copeland

  Ballet Class, Everyday, Normal

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."

  Julian Schnabel

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Interview with Mark Grotjahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• I don't want to wake up with cops surrounding my bed tonight.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Bed, Tonight, Want

  "Anthony Jeselnik on Sharon Stone, thankless open mics, and his evil plan". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

  Danger Mouse

  People, Band, Nightmare

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.

  Jay-Z

  Writing, Challenges, Albums

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• There are a lot of Ellroy lifts, man. This guy went to school. But then there's a willful thing that comes over me - God gives it to me - where I go, "That's real nice, let's just go home, pat yourself on the back, good dog, good dog, and wake up in the morning and go to work."

  James Ellroy

  Dog, Morning, Real

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I get very excited when I wake up in the morning and I am just full of oxygen. I say that purposefully. I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything. Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.

  Debbi Fields

  Morning, Opportunity, Oxygen

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

  Andy Warhol

  Dream, Couple, Good Movie

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• If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

  Mark Spitz

  Expectations, Want, Should

  Interview with Tim Cheung, hk.asiatatler.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I build my life so that I don't wake up for anything. Ever. If you make me get up early to do something with you, I will hate you and resent you and figure out a way of never having to work with you ever again.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hate, Up Early, Resent You

  Source: feathertale.com

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• One of the things that I love about being a writer is this. I wake up every day and I write for three hours. I wake up early. So like 6:00, 7:00 in the morning, I write till 9:00 or 10:00. I live in New York, nobody even is breathing until 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning. So, it's like my writing life is completely removed from the rest of my life.

  Walter Mosley

  Morning, New York, Writing

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

  Bodhidharma

  Wise, People, Sublime

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?'

  C. K. Prahalad

  Gone, Tomorrow, Cry

  Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (1996). “Competing for the Future”, p.145, Harvard Business Press

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• There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

  George Burns

  Morning, Silly, Old Saying

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• There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

  Stephen Hawking

  Morning, Way, Waking

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• Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Morning, Jobs, Doing Nothing

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• Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

  Studs Terkel

  Sleep, Animal, Humans

  Studs Terkel (2013). “Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do”, p.637, The New Press

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