"Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having."

“Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.”

“We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.”

“You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember. No matter what has happened up to this point, you have the right and the capacity to be happy. You are an innately creative being, capable of writing a love story worth living.”

“From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.”

“Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears, emotional conflicts and human tensions; in spite of the penalty of success and the dread of failure; in spite of tears and feverish gaiety this is the only life I know. It is the life I love.”

“No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.”

“Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.”

Source : Jenni Schaefer (2014). “Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too”, p.16, McGraw Hill Professional