PJ Harvey Quotes

Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.

Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.

Do what you say you're going to do! People can do nothing but respect that.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

I just get up again when I fall down.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

I think that once you lose your fear, and understand that your position is God-given, then, if you lose your fear of what man can do, it enables you to do some things that God wants you to do.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

Shame is the shadow of love.

Never try a shot you haven't practised.

Boys Shack, MEN build homes

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.

The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.