I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits. Florance Griffith Joyner
I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there. Martha Beck
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell. Peter Ackroyd
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. Doris Lessing
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror. Poppy Z. Brite
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. Beverly Cleary
I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were. Nick Johnson
I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly in the mainstream for a while. Jacqueline Carey
I don't think the game should be perfect. It's 95 percent mistakes out there - you have to work with 10 players on your side and another 11 against you. It's a crazy, chaotic game. Tiffeny Milbrett
I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control. Tim Tebow
I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing. Rob Bell
I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all. Alicia Sacramone
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.Thomas Alva Edison
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. David Eddings
I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym. Gerry Cooney
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.Neil Armstrong
I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be. Aimee Mullins
I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine. Bebe Moore Campbell
I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict. Cal Ripken Jr