Laumann Quotes

#1. The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.

Silken Laumann

#2. Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.

James A. Owen

#3. When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.

Bobby Womack

#4. It was either write or die for me.

Michael Hastings

#5. In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

Abraham H. Maslow

#6. It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

Michael Ondaatje

#7. God is looking for fearless and courageous faith rooted in obedience of His law. This is what it takes to work for God. Joshua 1:1-9

Felix Wantang

#8. I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

Joey Lauren Adams

#9. Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.

Silken Laumann

#10. Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as teachings

Silken Laumann

#11. It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

Richard P. Feynman

#12. Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

Etgar Keret

#13. You can't always mark them well at the moment of separation - no matter how deep they cut.

Ally Condie

#14. I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

Amelie Nothomb