If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
BILL WATTERSON I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your li...
BILL WATTERSON You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your any...
WAYNE DYER If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
ROBERT CAPA If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
HAROLD S. GENEEN Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scru...
SANDRA LEE You live day by day. You can't build your life.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't wa...
RHYS IFANS If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the...
TONI MORRISON If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
TOMMY LASORDA If you're passionate about something and stick with it, even if your friends aren't doing it...
ELIZABETH GILLIES At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of yo...
CARL LEWIS After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, direc...
JOHN RATZENBERGER The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of...
MARJANE SATRAPI We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work ...
IRVIN D. YALOM Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means...
NIGEL MANSELL If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your ...
TIMOTHY LEARY You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in...
STEPHEN AMELL You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before y...
CHUCK GRASSLEY There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties,...
SLOANE CROSLEY When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce o...
FRED DURST When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
RAY KROC Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine h...
MORRISSEY There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight....
AL ROKER The power to end credit sales in your business,is by learning to inflate your debtors bill,then you ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. I...
JEAN NIDETCH My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your ne...
TIMOTHY LEARY Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or y...
SHELLEY DUVALL Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right pla...
JENNIFER GARNER You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.
JOAN DIDION A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you'...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is...
RENEE OLSTEAD Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part fo...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between suc...
RICHARD BRANSON If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. ELIOT At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in towa...
BUSTA RHYMES You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, b...
COLIN FARRELL If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. KELLY I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of ha...
NATALIA KILLS All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgress...
MILTON GLASER At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner ...
ERIN CUMMINGS When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS If you hope for a change in your life stop doing what you use to do before, look inwardly, re-examin...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Faith Words aren't just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural p...
BO SANCHEZ All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and...
TESS CALLAHAN At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and it's just as important to that lo...
JOHN MACKEY You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positi...
D. H. LAWRENCE At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a moth...
INDRA NOOYI I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the ...
MADONNA CICCONE Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you'...
BARTON GELLMAN Yesterday was the end of your life. Today is the first and last day of the rest your life. Tomorrow ...
LORRIN L. LEE You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day w...
TRE COOL It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager,...
GEORGE FOREMAN All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If...
WENDELL BERRY By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine...
TINA FEY Changing Your Life is as easy as E Y T...
Examine Your Thinking in order to…
Elevate Your Thoughts...
COLLEEN LAUKKA If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If y...
NATE BERKUS If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have...
HAL SPARKS Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to b...
KEVIN O'LEARY Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to b...
KEVIN O'LEARY In your life time you will be criticized by others and they're opinion either to bring you down or m...
MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest thing...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
AL PACINO Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just w...
JACKIE ROBINSON At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ...
ROBBIE COLTRANE See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ...
ROBBIE COLTRAINE A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to ge...
GARY DAVID GOLDBERG At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you c...
KEVIN GARNETT Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn...
JUDITH JAMISON The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u...
TONY ROBBINS We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren...
JOSEPH ALTUZARRA You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chai...
BILL CALLAHAN It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first o...
JACK ANTONOFF When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because...
P. J. O'ROURKE Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow you...
DANIELLE STEEL If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a l...
SPIKE JONZE You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be ...
YAHYA JAMMEH For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. I...
DAVID WONG If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try t...
EVEL KNIEVEL When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to ...
CHRIS MARTIN I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, som...
JAMES MCAVOY The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't hav...
CANDACE BUSHNELL It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to...
CARA DELEVINGNE If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.
ALEX CLARE Recognizing your talents doesn't mean believing they're limitless. Accepting your strengths ...
GINA BARRECA You don't want to look the same every day of your life. It's boring as hell.
JOSEPH ABBOUD I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponen...
SUE WICKS Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren'...
JOHN KEEGAN If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not...
DANIEL GOLEMAN If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show...
GABRIEL HEATTER At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if yo...
CARLI LLOYD Your time is your life therefore you ought to tell where a part of your life went to
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful...
DANIEL BOULUD Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life...
JAMES DEAN If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's noth...
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BILL WATTERSON Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if...
BILL WATTERSON There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is.
BILL WATTERSON Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to ...
BILL WATTERSON If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 minutes, than it's probably not worth...
BILL WATTERSON You can lead people to the truth, but you can't make them understand it.
BILL WATTERSON How come we play war and not peace?"
"Too few role models.
BILL WATTERSON Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of cons...
BILL WATTERSON Now what state do you live in?'
'Denial.
BILL WATTERSON Mothers are the necessity of invention.
BILL WATTERSON I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas...
BILL WATTERSON I was not prepared for the resulting attention. Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and th...
BILL WATTERSON I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
BILL WATTERSON At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find the inner mo...
BILL WATTERSON Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these ...
BILL WATTERSON Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better t...
BILL WATTERSON By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an i...
BILL WATTERSON A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be...
BILL WATTERSON I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster th...
BILL WATTERSON It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON [Calvin: A 6-year-old boy who thinks like a grown-up and fantasizes like a child.] Calvin is very fr...
BILL WATTERSON