Maria Quotes

You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.

I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.

The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.

I implore those who love me to love my solitude.

Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.

I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.

It's important to be able to be a girl and be a scientist and have neither of those things affect each other.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their own situation and seize freedom for themselves.

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

There never was night that had no morn.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.

Don't let technology dictate your life.

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.

Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal.

Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad.

I don't have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want.

Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.

I'm not too good when exposed to people

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.