Ambire Quotes

#1. In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

Nancy Gibbs

#2. I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

Tom Petty

#3. We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.

Bert McCracken

#4. Focus on the mission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

Liam Gallagher

#6. The three decisions that control your destiny are: 1. Your decisions about what to focus on. 2. Your decisions about what things mean to you. 3. Your decisions about what to do to create the results you desire.

Anthony Robbins

#7. You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

Rod Stewart

#8. The cold was somehow touched with life, a freshness moving through the icy air.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.

W. Edwards Deming

#10. I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.

Jerrod Carmichael

#11. I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

Terry Tempest Williams

#12. Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

Katherine Dunn

#13. O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough.
[Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.
Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

Plautus

#15. ... Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

Jasper Fforde