#person

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety. ↗

— Josh Waitzkin

#personal-growth #art

In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself.... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it. ↗

— Nkem Mpamah

#personal-development #personal-growth #personal-performance #self-help #self-help-books

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#difficulty #personality #art

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath. ↗

— Timothy Zahn

#any #first #fork #i #into

When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#personal-quote #attitude

I'm a spiritual person. ↗

— Katharine McPhee

#person #spiritual #spiritual person

So it's not all that important who people really are. Honestly, you could end up spending your life with almost anyone, and it wouldn't matter who - because the person they are to you is totally dependent on your view of them. ↗

— Steph Bowe

#personality #viewpoint #attitude

Some say their world's will end with fire, some say with ice. From what I've tasted with desire I hold with those who favor fire. My world may not be ending, even though it feels like it. I do know this however, what doesn't kill you only mke you stronger. ↗

— Genesis

#inspirational-life #inspirational-love #inspiring #made-up-from-non-famous-person #attitude

How do you know when it's me?" "Your footsteps are apologetic?" "What does that mean?" She turned, smiling wiping her hands on her long, black skirt. "It doesn't mean anything," she said. "Everybody else here just does what they want to do and doesn't think twice about it. But you're never sure. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

#footsteps #personality #sense #sound #attitude

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#change #fashion #life #person #style