Edit Your Life Quotes

#1. Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.

Nathan W. Morris

#2. You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.

Jake Owen

#3. The things we love
tell us who we are.

Thomas Aquinas

#4. The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

Edith Wharton

#5. A good simile,
as concise as a king's declaration of love.

Laurence Sterne

#6. Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Noam Chomsky

#7. Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#8. TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#9. I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

Clark Terry

#10. Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

J. Michael Straczynski

#11. Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.

Susan Statham

#12. Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.

Penn Jillette

#13. Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.

Peter Landesman

#14. When you hit thirty-five or forty, you know on one level that you are no longer the physical specimen you once were.

Harlan Coben

#15. The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.

Michel Gondry

#16. Instagram is my edit of my life.

Kendall Jenner

#17. The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."

Ralph Fiennes

#18. Those million mistakes you did may not make you cry, but the ones you dint try might make you to.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

#19. They are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe - you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#20. It is actually difficult to edit life. Especially in regard to feelings. Not being open to anger or sadness usually means being unable to be open to love and joy. The emotions seem to operate with an all-or-nothing switch.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#21. Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.

Michael Marshall Smith

#22. I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

Buffy Andrews