Meera Lester Quotes

#1. A night of carousing never passed without me stepping outside the experience to think, Yes, this must be what it is to be young.

Lena Dunham

#2. Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.

Robin Hobb

#3. A dream needs a powerful push to move into manifestation. You give it that power by making your dream as clear as possible in your mind, turning it into specific goal or goals, putting the goals into a time line and knowing what the culmination of that dream looks like.

Meera Lester

#4. We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

Gerhard Richter

#5. Think of at least three ways to generate income from your knowledge, passion and expertise. Yes, there may be a learning curve until you are actually doing it, but you're going to love the extra money flowing in.

Meera Lester

#6. All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

James A. Baldwin

#7. Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#8. For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means ... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional, find hope, optimism and perhaps a path out of your situation in the stories of others.

Meera Lester

#10. When you choose positive thoughts over negative ones, you are more likely to develop an optimistic outlook on life.

Meera Lester

#11. Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

Betty Buckley

#12. We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#13. Rob yourself of sleep and you'll find you do not function at your personal best.

Arianna Huffington

#14. A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

Saul Bellow

#15. It is remarkable how events and truths can be reshaped, like wax that's sat too long in the sun.

Jodi Picoult

#16. Money will not purchase character or good government.

Calvin Coolidge

#17. Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee!

John Ford

#18. My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

Eli Wallach

#19. If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.

John C. Maxwell