
“Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”
Source: en.wikiquote.org - Oprah Winfrey / Quotes / CNN interview (2011)
“Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”
Source: en.wikiquote.org - Oprah Winfrey / Quotes / CNN interview (2011)
“If you had no higher motive than the approval of your fellow mortal, it would do you little good.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen to Ralph
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
“I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.”
Justine, in The Thorn Birds (1977)
Helene Elliott (October 16, 2008) "Ovechkin Is Good for NHL, Bad for Opposing Goalies", Los Angeles Times.
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”