Streamlining Synonyms Quotes

#1. There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.

Pat Summitt

#2. Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. my hair was a mass of tangled curls just like the old days, minus

Karen Marie Moning

#4. I set my genius to portray the pleasures of cruelty! These are no fickle, artificial delights, they began with man and with him they will die.

Comte De Lautreamont

#5. A person seated instead of standing - fate hangs on such a thread as that.

Victor Hugo

#6. How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.

Stanley Kubrick

#7. We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

Tamora Pierce

#8. That's sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something ... real." Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. "Real love, real friends, real body parts ...

Jess C. Scott

#9. In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.

Ben Kingsley

#10. Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

Jim Valvano

#11. Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes.

Kami Garcia