Djuanna Eldridge Quotes

#1. Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not. ... Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.5.2

Charles Duhigg

#2. Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

Carl Sandburg

#3. For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and each other, and, what does not always follow, men who thoroughly enjoyed each other's company.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Amber Valletta

#5. They need me to be their sturdy unbending fortress.
So here I am.

Krista Ritchie

#6. I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

Gretchen Rubin

#7. Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

Christina Perri

#8. An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing sketchy pages, to have followed her advice rather too well.

Joanna Russ

#9. Isaiah 58:11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy they soul in drought, and make fat they bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Anonymous

#10. And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder why stars.

Marisha Pessl

#11. When inspiration touches talent, she gives birth to truth and beauty.

Steven Pressfield