V. L. Crawford Quotes

I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

Having children really changes your priorities.

I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.

Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

Mike Keenan has been responsible for creating a lot of good things for coaches, like mid-season job openings.

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?

If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.

The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.

Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.

My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I dont know.

You leak sometimes. My pediatrician said, 'Can't you just wear pads under your clothes?' I said, 'You don't know the kind of clothes I wear on photo shoots.'

Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.

With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?

Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

We are all consumers of wildlife. We may not realize it but there's probably something in your home or something you own that came from wildlife.

There's a good deal of ivory being sold that claims to be antique ivory. In fact, we've seen evidence that there are fake antiques being carved in countries like China.

People ought to shop smart and really think about what they are buying.

You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.

To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

There are two ways to look at most problems... 'Oh Crap!' or, 'Good Information!,' and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.

Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change!

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don't give your chain to jerks!

Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.

To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

Making changes isn't about stopping the problem, it's about starting the solution.

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.