quotes about Gravitas

“Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.”

“I like the man, who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear.”

Source : Sarah Knowles Bolton (1923). “Sarah K. Bolton: Pages from an Intimate Autobiography”

“It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.”

“I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.”

“To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.”

“One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.”

“What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?”

“Everybody wants to be pretty because that's what they've been told will make them feel good even though there's no proof that people who are prettier are healthier and happier. So why don't we just cut to the chase and go straight to what makes us feel good?”

“The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.”