WAYNE GAGNON

Artist and Poet

Quotes

  • The only way out is through.” ― Robert Frost
  • That’s the thing about friendship, it’s a lot rarer than love because there’s nothing in it for anybody.” — Steve, from the movie Are You Here
  • Happiness is only real when shared.” — Christopher McCandless
  • Make your life spectacular” — Robin Williams
  • …when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” — Paul Coelho
  • It’s really simple, actually. It’s just… Try and make people happy.” — Zach Sobiech
  • If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.” — Jim Croce
  • I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Stephen Leacock
  • If I had anything to offer, I would have to do so now.” — Marian Anderson
  • …Sometimes all you need is brie, crust, and Legos … and see what happens.” — Ken Molnar, artist
  • The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.“― Jordan Belfort
  • You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays.” — Harold Hill in Music Man
  • I have never had a job that I am better than.” — Ashton Kutcher
  • We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It’s run by a big eastern syndicate, you know.” — Lucy Van Pelt
  • Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.” — Steve Jobs
  • Creativity is the residue of time wasted.” — Albert Einstein
  • It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” — Gabriel García Márquez
  • The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest if your life” — Jessica Hische
  • Remember, in the end, nobody wins unless everybody wins!” — Bruce Springsteen
  • I had a dream… And it came true.” — Anne Hathaway (accepting her Oscar)
  • Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch
  • Don’t go to your grave saying, ‘I wish I woulda…’” — David Reed Watson
  • I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” — Abraham Lincoln
  • My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.” — Anais Nin
  • If you are not making someone else’s life better, then you are wasting your time.” — Will Smith
  • You’re not supposed to give people what they want, you’re supposed to give them what they don’t know that they want yet.” — Diana Vreeland
  • If life gives you lemons, grab it by the horns and drive.” — Jane Lynch
  • The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” — Stephen Covey
  • You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury
  • In life you don’t regret the things you do, you regret the things you don’t do.” — Hugh Laurie
  • Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.” — unknown
  • We find a way through tough times and if we can’t find a way, well, then we’ll make one.” — Clint Eastwood
  • It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” — Bill Watterson (as Calvin)
  • Discipline is remembering what you want.” — David Campbell
  • …fair play to those who dare to dream and don’t give up.” — Markéta Irglová
  • Love is a human experience, not a political statement.” — Anne Hathaway
  • Dream until your dream comes true.” — Steven Tyler
  • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” — Henry David Thoreau
  • Don’t you find it odd that when you’re a kid everyone in the whole world tells you to follow your dreams, and when you’re older they act all offended if you even try?” — from the film The Hottest State
  • Talent is God-given, be humble. Fame is man-given, be thankful. Conceit is self-given, be careful.” — John Wooden
  • j’ai compris que la rencontre la plus importante de la vie était la rencontre avec soi-même.” — Yves Saint Laurent
  • Stay hungry. Stay foolish” — Whole Earth Catalog final message
  • Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
  • It’s ‘before you make it’ that’s interesting.” — Steve Martin
  • Don’t let your loved ones ever doubt your passion. Don’t let your passion ever start to fade.” — David M. Bailey
  • Never wear a hat that has more character than you.” — Utah Phillips
  • I never thought about if it would work out or not. I just love it.” — Lady Gaga on her dream of fame
  • Be nice to those you meet on the way up because you will meet them on the way down.” — Attributed to Walter Winchell, Wilson Mizner and Jimmy Durante
  • Why do people have to worry what other people think about them.” — Sam Gagnon
  • Life is a path lit only by the light of those we love. ” — Johnny Cash
  • “Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something.”
    — Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)
  • Good basketball players practice until they get it right.  Great basketball players practice until they don’t get it wrong.” — Sam Gagnon
  • When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.” — Eric Thomas
  • Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” — George Morris

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