"I donâ€™t know what Iâ€™m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. Iâ€™ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then Iâ€™ll think about a career path."

-- Laurie Halse Anderson

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Careers Quotes

“I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.”
“Not only am I better looking.. I'm just plain better.”
“When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.”

Source : "The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance". Book by Gangaji, 2007.
“Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.”
“My mother. She's 65 now and she has immaculate style. And that's exactly what I want to be.”
“A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.”
“Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.”

You may also like:

Ellen Hopkins
Novelist
Ingrid Law
Writer
Jack Gantos
Author
Jon Scieszka
Author
Laurie Anderson
Artist
Libba Bray
Writer
Maureen Johnson
Author
Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
Writer
Sharon Creech
Writer