“It's nice to finally be able to wake up and tie my shoes without feeling like I'm about to tip over, or walk a straight line without feeling dizzy, or be able to feel my left arm. That means a lot more to me.” FeelsMeanFeelingsAbleLeftLinesWalksNiceArmsWake UpShoesTiesStraight LinesDizzy Author:Prince Fielder
“People who have stuck to their vision and mission no matter what. They inspire me. The people who wake up to non-glamorous lives to continue pushing to do what God has called them to do.” PeopleMatterVisionInspireWake UpNo Matter WhatMissionsStuckPushingGlamorousGlamorous Life Author:LeCrae
“To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq, you're going to get a sense of what the hell's going on there. Boy, you'll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.” IfsBoysHellWake UpIraqObviousFlyingShouldersOver YouBullets Author:Al Pacino
“I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.” YearsSelfKidsMorningWake UpThank GodRighteousEvery MorningSelf Righteous Author:Annie Baker
“The more people wake up spiritually, the more they'll begin to realize the depth of what Prabhupada was saying - how much he gave.” PeopleRealizingWake UpDepth Author:George Harrison
“If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.” PeopleIfsWorldRealWould BeWake UpMiseryGood PlaceChanting Author:George Harrison
“The idea that you wake up and it happens that you're Queen, it's amazing but you could all be Queens if you imagined it.” IfsIdeasHappensWake UpQueens Author:George Harrison
“Coach [Pat] Riley's record speaks for itself. What makes him so special is he is a coach clearly concerned about winning. His whole thinking when he wakes up every day is how can I make this team [ New York Knicks] more focused and going through 82 games during the regular season and the playoffs.” ThinkingWholeGamesWinningSpeakRecordsTeamSpecialNew YorkConcernedSeasonsWake UpFocusedCoachesPlayoffsKnicks Author:John Starks
“Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as a right. Actually, it exists in every other major country on earth. You don't know that, because the media has forgotten to tell you that. But it does exist. In Denmark, because of union negotiations, the minimum wage is about $20 an hour. In Germany, you go to college tuition-free. In Finland, they actually pay you to go to college. Now, you don't know that in America because CBS forgot to tell you. But that is the reality.” PeopleKnowsShouldDoeIdeasCountryRealityCareEarthLastsAmericaNightHoursPayMediaCollegeMajorsWake UpUnionsForgottenHealth CareGermanyGuaranteesMinimumNegotiationLast NightGreat IdeaMinimum WageDenmarkTuitionFinlandCollege Tuition Author:Bernie Sanders
“To wake up to the sound of my son saying 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever.” SoundSonWake UpMy SonMama Author:Miranda Kerr
“The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free markets. But we're not sensitive to what that does to other people who don't have our privilege.” PeopleDoeJobsMorningWake UpUniversityPrivilegeSensitiveFree MarketColumnistsStanfordStanford UniversityOutsourced Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“I always thought Cyrano De Bergerac was a coward. He could fight a hundred swordsmen, but he was afraid of his nose, and he was afraid of Roxanne. Jam as cowardly as anybody about facing my fears. So, you spend your you years as an artist fighting those hundred people that you happen not to fear. Then you wake up one morning and realize all this time you're afraid of your nose. That's what you're going to have to face for the rest of your life. And you don't feel very courageous. But, if you don't face it, you dry up as an artist.” PeopleIfsFeelsYearsHappensFacesArtistFightingRealizingMorningHundredWake UpNosesDryCourageousCowardRest Of Your LifeJamCowardlyDry UpSwordsman Author:Michael Ventura
“You can lead in multiple ways. I try and lead by example, and make sure that I'm always accountable to my teammates. That starts off with my commitment to waking up early, training hard, lifting weights, and running. It's in my nutrition. It's just making sure I always put myself in the best possible position.” WayTryingHardRunningExamplePositionTrainingCommitmentWeightWake UpWakingNutritionMultipleTeammateLiftingUp EarlyLead InWaking Up EarlyLifting WeightsTraining Hard Author:Larry Fitzgerald
“I grew in a community where I saw the process of how one becomes a drug dealer or a gang banger or a stick-up kid. There's a series of events that happen. People don't just wake up and decide they wanna be that.” PeopleHappensKidsProcessCommunitySawsEventsGrewDrugWake UpSticksSeriesGangDealerDrug Dealers Author:Michael K. Williams
“We didn't just wake up one day and here is the United States of America, and it is the gem, the shining city on the hill, however you want to describe it, it had to be built. It was not there. But from the moment it began to be built, isn't it interesting that everybody in the world who heard about it wanted to go there?” WorldWantStatesMomentsWantedAmericaInterestingUnitedCitiesUnited StatesHeardOne DayBuiltWake UpShiningHillsUnited States Of AmericaGems Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.” PeopleHas BeensAmericaWake UpDeterminedAbandonedIgnoredBetter LifeNeglected Author:Donald Trump
“If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship is a losing proposition. That Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and derogatory comments do not really work in a national election. And I think we'll have a better chance to actually get something done.” IfsThinkingDoneRealityChancePartyPathTrumpRepublicanLosingWake UpElectionDemocraticImmigrationReformOppositionCommentSenateRhetoricCitizenshipRepublican PartyPropositionsComprehensiveImmigration ReformDerogatory Author:Hillary Clinton
“When you're facing a difficult issue that you absolutely can do nothing about - I can't fly the plane; I can't change the weather - falling asleep, you'll either wake up and things will be fine or you won't.” I CanFallDifficultCan DoIssuesFineWake UpWeatherPlanesCan't ChangeFalling Asleep Author:Hillary Clinton
“People of all kinds are waking up. Even people passionate for Obama realize even that knight on a white horse isn't enough to roll back the oligarchy. I'm seeing a lot of action on the left as well that is never reported. But the Tea Party response is the most visible and the initiative they show is the most recognizable.” PeopleWellsKindEnoughShowsActionLeftRealizingWhitePartySeeingHorseWake UpResponsePassionateAll KindsTeaVisibleWakingInitiativeKnightsTea PartyOligarchyWhite Horse Author:Naomi Wolf
“There is always the risk in advocating for democracy that the first people to wake up might not be your team, but that is a risk worth taking. I would rather have citizens I don't agree with organized and active than an oligarchy of people that I agree with.” PeopleFirstsMightDemocracyRiskTeamCitizensWake UpAgreeActiveOrganizedAdvocatingOligarchy Author:Naomi Wolf
“If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to have. History shows when millions just don't go along, resist at any level - and I'm talking about all the way up to bipartisan impeachment and arrest of the leaders of the coup - then it can't happen.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayShowsHappensLevelsTalkingLeaderMillionsGenerationsWake UpAngryConnectedFoundingBipartisanCoupsImpeachment Author:Naomi Wolf
“For morning news, people want to know as they are getting dressed, as they are getting ready to leave [for work], "what has happened in the world overnight?" Morning news is a sure-fire way to find out what that is. I personally love and celebrate the fact that you can go to bed and the world is one way and you wake up and it's totally different.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantDifferentFactsMorningFireHappenedReadyBedNewsWake UpCelebrateOne WayGetting DressedReady To Leave Author:Gayle King
“It usually just comes to committing your whole day to the Lord from when you first wake up in the morning. Just being totally available to God and leaving the results to Him. We don't work for answers or trying to convince someone of something. It is just being available to share and leaving the results to God.” TryingFirstsWholeAnswersResultsLordMorningShareWake UpLeavingAvailableConvinceJust Being Author:Vonette Bright
“I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.” MenWellsPersonsProblemTodayDecisionOne DayBasesWake UpEverydayBehaveGood ManWakingGood PersonBeing A Good PersonEveryday Things Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“For me, success to me is waking up and doing what you're doing every day, whatever that looks like to me.” LooksWake UpWaking Author:Chuck Harmony
“I wake up very early every morning and I have my coffee at 6:30. If it comes at 6:35, I'm very upset. I don't say anything but I'm upset because I'm so punctual in doing things, that if I lose five minutes I have to rush everything.” IfsLosesMorningFiveMinutesWake UpCoffeeUpsetEvery MorningSay AnythingFive MinutesPunctual Author:Sophia Loren
“Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!” SoulSometimesCitiesWake UpMy Soul Author:Bette Midler
“My perfect Sunday is waking up at 10 - which, you know, those days are over for me - but waking up at 10, breakfast with children, hanging out with well-behaved children.” KnowsWellsChildrenPerfectWake UpSundayHanging OutBreakfastWaking Author:June Diane Raphael
“I never sleep in. By the way, when we're like, "We alternate waking up for the kids," the other person's waking up at 7 a.m. It's not like you're waking up at 10. It's like, "I'm really going to give you a treat and you're gonna get your ass up at 7 instead of 5:59." Which is when our son wakes up.” WayGivingPersonsKidsSleepSonLike YouTreatsWake UpAssWakingNever Sleep Author:June Diane Raphael
“I'm like, "You could not wake up in the sixes? Does it really gotta be in the fives?" Because the 5 really feels like nighttime. I don't like the day starting at 5.” FeelsDoeLike YouWake UpStartingNighttime Author:June Diane Raphael
“I think because it is a very well-saturated story,episode of Justified in Hannibal, and we've all heard it in some frame of a story, we've heard the urban legend of waking up in a bathtub with a kidney missing. It felt like if we are telling an organ-harvesting story, it was really about quickly selling the iconography of an organ-harvesting story, and then being able to mask that as a perfect way for Hannibal Lecter to go shopping for his menu.” IfsThinkingWayWellsStoriesAbleFeltPerfectHeardMissingWake UpSellingMaskLegendsWakingShoppingOrgansEpisodesUrbanJustifiedMenusKidneysSaturatedBathtubsIconographyMissing ItUrban Legends Author:Bryan Fuller
“You gotta be happy when you wake up in the morning and look at what's next to ya. You wanna just hop on it again. That's how I feel. That's what life is about. Because when you leave the house, it's all misery anyway.” FeelsLooksLife IsNextHouseMorningWake UpMiseryHops Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women and men in the face of this? Why do we let ourselves be so distracted and obsessed by meaningless B.S. in light of having one short, precious life? When are we going to wake up and be fully alive to each other and nature and magic and wonder and Life with a capital L? When will we stop hitting the snooze button? And then, how alive are we willing to be?” MenLightFacesHateDiesWonderAliveMagicWillingMen And WomenI HateWake UpObsessedMeaninglessHittingButtonsAdoreDistractedPrecious LifeSnooze Button Author:Anne Lamott
“What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.” PeopleNeedsWarCountryEnergyMorningMillionsPercentWake UpBillionsOur CountryAlternativesWowMachineryBillionaireAlternative EnergySolar Panels Author:Dar Williams
“Literally, when you wake up at 9 o'clock in the morning in Havana you don't know where you'll be at noon. But it's a safe guess that you'll either be married, arrested, or in the midst of some incredible transaction where somebody is stealing your passport or paying you in Dominican pesos for it, or whatever. It's a wild place.” KnowsMorningSafeMarriedWake UpIncrediblesStealingClockMidstBeing MarriedArrestedNoonTransactionsPassportsHavanaWild Places Author:Pico Iyer
“You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I want to become president," or "I want to win the Pulitzer Prize." If you love what you're doing, it's sort of a nice thing that happens toward the end of your career, or in the middle of your career. It is not the reason you were doing it. The reason you were doing it is because every day you wake up in the morning and you can't wait to learn something new.” IfsWantEndsReasonHappensWinningWaitingPresidentCareersMorningNiceMiddleWake UpProfessionPrizeSomething NewMedalNice ThingsOlympic Medals Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I think a lot of people get into what they're eating. Yes, it's important, but at some point, let's think about what we're feeling. It can become a control issue to control everything that you're eating and the exercise that you're doing. I think it's good to do a bit of everything, but to just notice how you're feeling when you wake up in the morning.” PeopleThinkingImportantFeelingsBitsMorningIssuesExerciseEatingWake UpControl Issues Author:Caroline Dhavernas
“It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically.” ThinkingTermIdentityIllusionWake UpStuckBoundariesWho We Are Author:Elia Suleiman
“I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing is infinitely harder. Especially with the economics of serious fiction being what they are in America.” WritingAmericaFictionMorningNovelSeriousToughEconomicsHarderWake UpTheaterNovelistsThank GodEvery MorningNovel Writing Author:Tony Kushner
“I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'” KnowsShouldHas BeensSaidFeelingsWisdomFatherPositiveDadShould HaveWake UpMy DadNot SureDesperateBreakupHeartbrokenCould Have BeenBreak UpShould Have BeenBeing PositiveIt Is What It IsBroke UpBroken Up Author:Nicole Kidman
“When you wake up and everybody says, "How do you feel, Mike?" I say, "I'm alive." As long as I'm alive I can deal with anything that's out there.” FeelsLongI CanDealsAliveWake UpMikeI'm Alive Author:Michael E. Thornton
“I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.” ThinkingTryingI CanSeemsJobsCausesMorningTroubleFiguresIndustryWake UpScalesOptimisticOutcomesFuelEvery MorningFossilsFossil FuelPessimistic Author:Bill McKibben
“It'll be sad not to be Doctor Who anymore because that's an incredible thing to wake up in the morning and go, 'Oh, I'm still Doctor Who!' And you can go and blow up some monsters, and that's how you spend your day. And also when you walk around people don't see Peter anymore, he's not here, it's Doctor Who they see and he gets many more smiles than I do. It'll be sad to say goodbye.” PeopleMorningWake UpIncrediblesBlowGoodbyeDoctor WhoSaying Goodbye Author:Peter Capaldi
“The big frustration for me is that people are growing so cynical about politics that you see them basically shrug and say, "Oh, yeah. Who cares that Harper is shutting down debate? Who cares that he's building prisons, and everything? All the politicians are the same so why should we be outraged about one rather than the other?" And my point is Canadians need to wake up. This is not the Canada they'd recognize if they looked closely.” PeopleCareBuildingPoliticianWake UpPrisonDebateFrustrationCynicalOutraged Author:Justin Trudeau
“Young people are tremendously frustrated because they don't see politics as changing anything. They see it as perpetuating a system that frankly doesn't work and no matter who you vote for things don't really change. Social media is where I think a bold message will wake them up. We saw that a little bit in the Occupy movement. Over the next three years, I think young people are going to wake up and be empowered.” PeopleThinkingVoteWake UpSocial MediaFrustratedEmpowered Author:Justin Trudeau
“I am a morning person...I love waking up, walking & reveling In the beauty of all the flowers and trees....while chugging a 5th of vodka!!! It could happen.” MorningTreeFlowerWalkingWake UpVodka Author:Judy Tenuta
“I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil." I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.” PeopleThinkingImportantEvilMorningWake UpHorribleRevelationsGood Day Author:George Saunders
“The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years of Microsoft, you see all kinds of creativity, innovation, invention, people have nothing to lose, they're trying to find what works. Then you wake up and you're a vast enterprise, and it's very hard, when you have all kinds of buildings and structures and hierarchy and so on, to hang on to these very creative impulses that helped you get your great success in the first place. As a church we're going to have to figure a way out from under this.” PeopleTryingKindChurchCreativityCreativeBuildingWake UpInnovationInventionAll KindsImpulseEnterpriseGreat Success Author:Chris Lowney
“When you wake up in the middle of the night and you hear a scary sound, you're not picturing yourself getting the girl, you're not picturing yourself winning the prize and becoming a hero. What makes you scared is the fear that you're gonna die, or that something horrific is gonna happen. So while I'm not opposed to happy ending, or wherever the story is naturally supposed to go-I do end up finding that I like movies where you almost end up feel, at best, that the character survived it more than championed over it.” CharacterNightGirlWinningHeroWake UpScaredScaryPrizeOver ItHappy EndingsHorrific Author:Bryan Bertino