S Austin Quotes

Fake it until you make it! When you're feeling bad, get dressed up - soon your inside will catch up with your outside

Approach difficult tasks with a positive attitude - you'll inspire others and feel better about what's ahead

Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!

Take perfection and throw it out the window. There's always something you can make better or do differently - strive to IMPROVE, not attain the impossible.

When you motivate others to be healthy, you can’t help being motivated too.

Dare to accomplish the things you've only dreamed about doing. If you can dream it, you can do it.

Food is fabulous, and having a good relationship with it will make you healthy and happy.

Release yourself from the power you've invested in your mirror and those around you - take control of who you are and how you feel!

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.

It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.

Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.

Nobody can ever be fully prepared to deal with a new, painful situation. Sometimes I react with patience and sometimes I react by doing something impulsive. But I always learn from such experiences.

It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

A general message to "everyone" on the planet would go something along the lines of, "Make Love, Not War."

I stay active and choose to associate myself with like-minded people.

I always feel a bit vulnerable when I begin a new project, especially when I am playing a character with either a troubled past or unique personality.

The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere.

[God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone (ranked) 92 in the world.

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.

From one match to the next, I kept on winning.

I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

I started tennis around age 2.

It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.

I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.

Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help them, but also that he resented the implication that he ought to

Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works.

If you say something as if it were, that isn't, is it considered a lie, or speaking it into existence?

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.