#la

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#exist #feel #greater #island #just

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#belief #believe #gets #launching #most

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#good #hand #holding #life #playing

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#knowing #makes #mountain #relish #scaling

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath. ↗

— Tom Waits

#always #america #beneath #big #cadillac

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs. ↗

— Tom Waits

#car #cd #discs #feel #hand

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop. ↗

— Tom Waits

#eavesdrop #eavesdropping #good #how #know

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. ↗

— Tom Waits

#george #george burns #i #loved #particularly

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you. ↗

— Tom Waits

#become #build #building #carefully #crow

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini. ↗

— Tom Waits

#atomic bomb #bikini #bomb #explosive #first