Wake Up Quotes - Page 7

• Wake up this morning knowing that the possibility for love is closer.

  Jon Jones

  Love, Morning, Knowing

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• You wake up every morning with a smile on your face because you've got a new day you never expected to have. And there's a sense of wonderment. Nothing short of magical.

  Dick Cheney

  Morning, New Day, Faces

  "Dick Cheney's heart". Interview with Sanjay Gupta, www.cbsnews.com. October 20, 2013.

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• While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.

  Frederick Franck

  Drawing, Wonder, Grass

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• Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds, say, engineering and business, you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.

  Justine Musk

  Baby, Sex, Moving

  "Elon Musk's first wife explains what it takes to become a billionaire" by Madeline Stone, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2015.

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• In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

  Daniel Clowes

  Morning, Math, Thinking

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• You don't wake up in the morning and think, I'm going to be so bad today. I'm going to be a nasty villain to everyone. No, you just wake up and do your own thing.

  Stanley Weber

  Morning, Thinking, Today

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• I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Block, People, Giving

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• These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Sleep, Thinking, Guy

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• I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, “What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?” Like, everyone collectively decided, “We’re done!” Over time I got more confidence.

  Ben Silbermann

  Thinking, Yesterday, What If

  "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

  Ray Stevenson

  Morning, Thinking, Guy

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

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• Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

  Zoe Saldana

  Bed, Moments, Bigs

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• I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

  Robin Thicke

  Expectations, Trying, Feels

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

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• We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Sleep, Buddhism

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• One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Tired, Buddhism

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• Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Needs, Sometimes

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.19, Anchor

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• Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Morning, Writing

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• I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Profound, Perspective, Choices

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• If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

  Matt Lucas

  Night, Complaining, Lasts

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• I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.

  Joe Manganiello

  Gym

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• And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Different, Fairy Tale, Sometimes

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• It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

  Dave Grohl

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

  Dave Grohl

  Wow

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• Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

  Will Self

  Useless, Violence, Sometimes

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