Top 30 Petra Nemcova Quotes
#1. I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.
Petra Nemcova
#2. Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.
Cornelia Funke
#3. We must understand that most people instinctively act out of self-interest, but if you show them that you are interested in them and invested in their success, most will do the same for you.
Nick Vujicic
#4. Don't mistake activity for achievement. To produce results, tasks must be well organized and properly executed; otherwise, it's no different from children running around the playground - everybody is doing something, but nothing is being done; lots of activity, no achievement.
John Wooden
#5. Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.
Lord Byron
#7. There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us ... and I will do my best.
Petra Nemcova
#8. Entire families are attending 'Son of God' together and sharing it with their own kids. Parents are using the film as a conversation starter to help bring the story of Jesus to life for their children.
Roma Downey
#9. So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.
Petra Nemcova
#10. Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.
Sara Ryan
#11. I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.
Petra Nemcova
#12. The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.
William Nordhaus
#13. World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It's being fulfilled every day round about us.
Billy Graham
#14. I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.
Petra Nemcova
#15. I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.
Petra Nemcova
#16. Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times
Robert A. Heinlein
#17. But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
Terry Pratchett
#18. Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Thomas Moore
#19. We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
Petra Nemcova
#21. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Petra Nemcova
#22. My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.
Petra Nemcova
#24. It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.
Petra Nemcova
#25. I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it.
Brie Larson
#26. I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.
Petra Nemcova
#27. Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.
Petra Nemcova
#28. There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.
Gautama Buddha
#29. I think all women want to feel sexy and confident yet comfortable at the same time in what they wear.
Petra Nemcova
#30. If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.
Petra Nemcova
