quotes about Individual Effort

“Looking effortless takes a lot of effort,”

Source : Alexa Chung (2014). “It”, p.69, Penguin UK

“I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'”

“Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 02, 2016

“Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.”

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

“My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.”

“I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.”

“Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.”

“It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way.”

“When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no quarrel. 'The ultimate test of our professionalism' is how Commander McKendrick describes an unprovoked attack on a nation with no submarines, no navy and no air force, and now with no clean water and no electricity and, in many hospitals, no anaesthetic with which to amputate small limbs shredded by shrapnel. I have seen elsewhere how this is done, with a gag in the patient's mouth.”

“I see my beauty in you.”