Failure, Inc.

#COOL.AS.A.FAN

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

Photo credit: Italian Vogue

“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line.”

~ Ross Perot

#PRETTIEST.GIRL.IN.THE.ROOM

“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.”

~ Audrey Hepburn 

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” 

~ Marilyn Monroe

#NO.LOOKING.BACK

“The past is a foreign country.  They do things differently there.”

~ Leslie Poles Hartley

#NOTHING.IS.EVER.BLACK.OR.WHITE

“If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.”

~ Marilyn Monroe

“We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”

~ Aristotle

“If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying.  It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.”

~Dale Carnegie

#GAMEFACE

“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.  Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.”

~ Arthur Ashe

#YouGotThis 

“Chill…I’m just trying to get my ish together daaawg.” - Yours Truly 

Photo credit: W Magazine

#MIDDAY.MOTIVATION

“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.  Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own.  It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.”

~ Paulo Coelho

#IN.A.SLUMP

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ~ Pythagoras

Procrastination is like masturbation.  At first it feels good, but in the end you’re only screwing yourself.  ~ Author unknown

#TRUTH.IS.STANGER.THAN.FICTION

“I don’t want to create costumes.  I want to create reality.”

~ Lisy Christl (Oscar nominated costume designer)

#OscarNight