Nola Ochs quotes

I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.
-- Nola Ochs

#Life #Numbers #Long

People will help you do almost anything if you want to do it badly enough. The desire has to be intense, but I would encourage people to search their desires, to pick out one, and then get out and do it!
-- Nola Ochs

#People #Desire #Want

I give thanks every day for each new day that the Lord allows me to live and enjoy life to the fullest.
-- Nola Ochs

#New Day #Giving #Enjoy Life

I never set out to do anything unusual or newsworthy. I just like to study and learn, and I've always been that way.
-- Nola Ochs

#Way #Study #Unusual

The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a feeling of satisfaction.
-- Nola Ochs

#College #Class #Feelings

I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history.
-- Nola Ochs

#Years #Records #Research

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.