Carlisa Jackson Quotes

#1. Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.

Don DeLillo

#2. Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Jane Smiley

#3. The heart is like a mirror. Do not prevent it from being broken. It's breakage is more dearer in the sight of its maker [Allah], than its safety. Almighty Allah being indeed the Maker

Muhammad Iqbal

#4. When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance ...

John Keats

#5. Fear and sorrow inhibit action; anger generates it. When you learn to make proper use of your anger, you can change fear and sorrow to anger, then turn anger to action. That's the body's secret of internal alchemy.

Dan Millman

#6. You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.

Hope Solo

#7. When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

Indra Nooyi

#8. Amy sat back and grinned. "You just smiled." That was definitely something else she could get used to.
Of course, he frowned immediately. "I smile.

Cindy Gerard

#9. I actually started in the opposite place. I come from a technical background - I'm a mathematician and a programmer by trade - and I was one of those people who would watch a show and say, "Oh, that could never happen."

Michael Loceff