Where You Are Quotes - Page 30

• I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Struggle, Worry, Creative

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• Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

  Russell Conwell

  Men, Philadelphia, Wish

  Russell Conwell (2007). “Acres of Diamonds (Business Success Edition)”, p.50, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Motivational, Moving On, Football

  "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

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• I used to say I live my life a quarter mile at a time and I think that's why we were brothers- because you did, too. No matter where you are, whether it's a quarter mile away or half way across the world. The most important thing in life, will always be the people in this room. Salute mi familia. You'll always be with me... And you'll always be my brother.

  Vin Diesel

  Brother, Thinking, Things In Life

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• You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.

  Brian Tracy

  Successful, People, Care

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals”, p.58, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Neurosis, Should

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 30, 2002.

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• Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

  Rupert Penry-Jones

  Nice, Careers, Matter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Know that wherever you are in your life right now is both temporary, and exactly where you are supposed to be. You have arrived at this moment to learn what you must learn, so you can become the person you need to be to create the life you truly want. Even when life is difficult or challenging-especially when life is difficult and challenging-the present is always an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we've ever been before.

  Hal Elrod

  Opportunity, Challenges, Want

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 14, 2012

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• No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.

  John Dear

  Moon, Thumbs, World

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• Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Two, Want

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

  Robin Hobb

  Men, Goes On, May

  Robin Hobb (2003). “Mad Ship”, p.150, Spectra

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• If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Thinking, Self, Moral

  Charlotte Bunch, Nancy Myron (1974). “Class and feminism: a collection of essays from the Furies”

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• In dreams you can have the feeling that you've had this dream before, that you have this dream over and over again, and you know that it's really nothing that simple. You know that there's a whole underground system that you call 'dreams,' having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar - where you are now, where you've always been.

  Alice Munro

  Dream, Simple, Tunnels

  Alice Munro (1990). “Friend of my youth: stories”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.

  Napoleon Hill

  Planning, Where You Are Going

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.309, Penguin

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• You cannot wait until everything becomes better before you decide to have a good attitude. You have to be the best you can be right where you are.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

  Joel Osteen (2015). “Daily Readings from You Can, You Will: 90 Devotions to Becoming a Winner”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

  Lawrence Summers

  Jet Planes, Kind, Problem

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• When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

  Dogen

  Practice, Fundamentals

  Eihei Dogen (2013). “Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries”, p.85, Counterpoint

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• Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

  Robert Solow

  Games, Battle, Want

  "Conversations With Economists: New Classical Economists and Opponents Speak Out on the Current Controversy in Macroeconomics". Book by Arjo Klamer, 1983.

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• The one thing I will say is management is management. Culture is culture. You have to have a formula for those things. You have to believe in what you do and how you do it, but then you go to different environments and you have to be willing to adapt. You have to be willing to tweak things based on where you are.

  Pete Lembo

  Believe, Different, Culture

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Turn strategy into simple language so every staff member knows it. People must understand why you are doing, what you are doing and where you are going. Big almost impossible, highly meaningful goal + respectful & supportive team is the winning combination of fear & love. Meaning is the biggest sources of energy that gets you up in the morning.

  Michael Rennie

  Meaningful, Morning, Team

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• If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.

  Jack Kornfield

  Running, Dog, Fall

  "A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times". Book by Jack Kornfield, www.lionsroar.com. 2011.

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• Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

  George Washington Carver

  Hard Times, Satisfied

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• Don't get stuck where you are, keep growing. It's a decision you have to make because it is easy to get stuck. Make a decision to develop better habits, to have better relationships and just to keep the enthusiasm for life.

  Joel Osteen

  Enthusiasm For Life, Decision, Growing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

  Garth Brooks

  Thinking, Sea, Want

  Interview with Kevin Freiberg, www.freibergs.com.

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• I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Thinking, Skills

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