#owing

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#aside #distractions #doubt #encounter #following

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? ↗

— Frederick Carl Frieseke

#effort #games #going #look #natural

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#artist #deepens #great #growing #his

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#energy #growing #idea #met #nonsense

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#any #bad #could #did #elder

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference. ↗

— Lou Gehrig

#difference #following #guy #head #headline

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#down #growing #growing up #i #i think

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#ambition #been #cook #ever #growing

I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#big #career #cookbooks #great #great time

Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny. ↗

— Vince Flynn

#calls #growing #growing up #knew #me