Nikola Tesla Quotes

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.

I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.

I'm very proud of my well-earned wrinkles, so show 'em.

We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

There's nothing in the world like live entertainment. With TV, you have to wait for your results; with live entertainment, people let you know right then and there. That relationship is established in 30 seconds. The first 30 seconds, they'll let you know whether they like you or not.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.