Akikawa Risa Quotes

#1. Enjoy writers and entertainers but don't substitute their synthesis of truth and reality for your own. Seek your own counsel as much as you can. Dependence on any one or anything else will eventually result in disappointment and this may be, as it always was.

Nikhil Sharda

#2. If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

Aaliyah

#3. We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.

Moby

#4. May your heart be filled with gladness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Geoff Gaberino

#6. A lot of the things I find funniest about people are their shortcomings that they're oblivious to, but that they're constantly reminding everyone around them of.

Emile Hirsch

#7. Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday.

Ayn Rand

#8. I was so thrilled to be in 'Doctor Who.' It's such a wonderful experience, and the fan base that that show has never fails to surprise me.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#9. I wear and have worn scarves my entire life while traveling, working out, and now sometimes while performing, and not just on my head - I wear them around my neck and on my bag.

Estelle

#10. Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.

Kofi Annan

#11. There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.

Michael Palin