"The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests can't act but they can inspire us and they inspire people like myself and money others in the conservation movement to act on their behalf."

-- Ian Cohen

#Breathing Quotes #People Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act -- and to what you do when things don't go the way you think they should. Pay attention to what you value. Pay attention to how and on what you spend your time. Your money. And pay attention to the way you eat.”

Source : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.”
“We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.”
“I am the luckiest man in the world.”
“They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.”
“It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before.”
“Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.”
“As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.”

Source : "Ray Bradbury: The Uncensored Biography" by Gene Beley, (p. 284), 2006.

You may also like:

Billie Jean King
Tennis player
Bob Brown
Australian Senator
Eugenie Bouchard
Tennis player
Margaret Court
Tennis player
Peter Garrett
Member of the Australian House of Representatives