Spend Quotes - page 98

I'd split up with a boyfriend and gone to Vermont to stare at my navel, and then 9/11 happened, and I spent days being scared of what was happening in the world. So I made a list of all the things I wanted to do, and at the top was adopt a baby. Nine months and two days later, I brought my daughter home. (Shonda Rhimes)
You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better. View quote
Steffi Graf
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print. View quote
Irving Penn
I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about. View quote
Irving Stone
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80. View quote
Ernest Klein
I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality. View quote
Ernest Klein
The universe defies you to answer the following questions: What good is a high paying career if it leaves you continually stressed out and miserable? What good is owning a large stately house if the only time you spend in it is when you sleep in it? What good is having a lot of interesting possessions if you never have the free time to enjoy them? Above all, what good is having a family if you seldom see any of its members? View quote
Ernie J Zelinski
Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You can feel more prosperous in a one-room cottage than most wealthy people feel in a twenty-room mansion. Misers will hoard a lot of money and spendthrifts will spend whatever they have - you don't have to do either to feel prosperous. You may have to give up your secure, high-paying corporate job, however - and grow spiritually in the process. View quote
Ernie J Zelinski
Try to earn your $$$$$$ before you spend them. View quote
Ernie J Zelinski
If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off. View quote
Ernie J Zelinski
Unfortunately, money is more often misused and abused than used intelligently. Most people haven't figured out how to use money wisely to truly enhance their lives. Most, it seems, act rationally with their money only when they can't dream up any more irrational ways to spend it. To be sure, financial insanity has developed its own big following including you and me. (Ernie J Zelinski)
If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend. View quote
Irwin Schiff
At first sight, domesticated animals may seem much better off than their wild cousins and ancestors. Wild buffaloes spend their days searching for food, water and shelter, and are constantly threatened by lions, parasites, floods and droughts. Domesticated cattle, by contrast, enjoy care and protection from humans. People provide cows and calves with food, water and shelter, they treat their diseases, and protect them from predators and natural disasters. True, most cows and calves sooner or later find themselves in the slaughterhouse. Yet does that make their fate any worse than that of wild buffaloes? Is it better to be devoured by a lion than slaughtered by a man? Are crocodile teeth kinder than steel blades? View quote
Yuval Noah Harari
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing. View quote
Junot Diaz
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow. View quote
Junot Diaz
Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time. View quote
Barry Levinson
I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity. View quote
Ben Goldacre
I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it. View quote
Benjamin Percy
Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. View quote
Adriana Lima
Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies. View quote
Asia Argento
Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity. (Betty White)
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K. View quote
Bear Grylls
I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time. View quote
Bryan Lee O'Malley
In the digital space, attention is a currency. We earn it. We spend it. View quote
Brian Solis
It is a mistake to expect all of our needs to be met by one person or in one relationship. Honor and be grateful for that which you receive. Don't become bitter and spend all your time focusing on that which the person is not able to provide. View quote
Brenda Shoshanna