#vera

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#alert #changes #constantly #control #every

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#because #goes #hard #hard work #like

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#i #know #lot #man #results

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ↗

— Walter Elliot

#after #long #many #other #perseverance

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be. ↗

— Eminem

#lot #mature #more #overall #than

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan. ↗

— Bob Filner

#beijing #chinese #chinese government #coming #cross

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#did #living #longer #our #than

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#annually #average #between #campus #fires

There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#been #books #business #command #countless

It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#because #contract #even #everyone #i