Morning Quotes — Page 28

Writer, Scholar

“The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.”

Inspirational Jobs Morning

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Paul Ryan

Politician

“And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.”

Thinking Morning Work

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Jeff Bezos

Entrepreneur

“Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.”

Morning Bed

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Billy Graham

Evangelist, Author

“I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.”

Morning Alive

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Brian Wilson

Musician

“I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.”

Writing Song Morning

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Woody Allen

Director, Actor, Writer

“I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.”

Morning Team Softball

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Salvador Dali

Artist, Surrealist

“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?”

Morning Joy Wake Up

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.”

Morning Attitude Angel

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J. K. Rowling

Novelist, Screenwriter

“Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.”

Morning Feet Lakes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

“Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.”

Morning Sleep Depression

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Geneen Roth

Author

“If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.”

Jobs Morning Monday

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Haruki Murakami

Writer

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”

Book Morning Loneliness

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