"Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure."

-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking Quotes #Important Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?”
“I can't overrule gravity or turn away an approaching hurricane. I'm powerless over those things, yet this doesn't mean that I can't act with responsibility. I can pack provisions and head to my cellar as a storm approaches.”
“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”

Source : Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”
“As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to be a message at the end of anything I write. Otherwise you wouldn't trust the characters. They'd feel less organic and more like puppets that are sharing the author's opinion.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.”
“What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'”
“Men never fail to underestimate women.”
“Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.”

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