Bad Ass Quotes - Page 9

• And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

  Will Smith

  Sleep, Work Ethic, Guy

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• A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Generosity, Guy, Want

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• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Couple

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Hope, Badass, Tea

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• I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

  Warren Ellis

  Taken, Doors, Rivers

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• Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.

  Alan Cohen

  Creativity, People, Focus

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• Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work.

  James Ogilvy

  Inspirational, Moving, Creativity

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• Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Believe, Shining

  "Demi Lovato's Words To Live By" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. November 22, 2013.

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• No artist tolerates reality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "The Rebel" by Albert Camus, (Part 4: Rebellion and Art), 1951.

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• Gettin at Weezy you comin through me-zy & I won't hesitate to do anyone greasy

  Nicki Minaj

  Ass

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Dance, Mean

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• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

  Randy Pausch

  Life, Change, Positive

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2010). “The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living”, Hodder Paperbacks

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• Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

  George Adair

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Money

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• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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• Gotta go let me get the car key You don't want it wit the Harajuku Barbie

  Nicki Minaj

  Keys, Car, Barbie

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• When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Fun, Might

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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• Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Real, Men

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.18, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

  Joseph Pilates

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

  "Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology".

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