“It's easy to ignore the mess around election do that over here in Germany. It's just a blip on the radar for the German culture. They're like, "Y'all are crazy over there. Next segment." I'm not saying they're not scared. They're just wondering when people are going to wake up and see the pattern they themselves lived through and could see coming from a much greater distance. They don't have the hubris of youth to luxuriate in. According to the Germans I've spoken with, Trump's rise looks very similar to what happened prior to Hitler rising to power.” PeopleCultureEasyWonderCrazyYouthWake UpElectionDistanceScaredMessHubris Author:Measha Brueggergosman
“My deepest desire is to create a world where there's room for all of us, where no matter who you are, you get to wake up in the morning and know that you are worthwhile and deserving. If that's the world I want to live in, I have to do the work to make that true for me.” WorldDesireMorningWake UpWho You AreDeserving Author:Kerry Washington
“For me, having a daughter made me much more efficient and productive. I would wake up in the morning trying to figure out how to organize my day so that I could get home. The phone calls with friends, the lunches out with colleagues - all of that got scrapped so that I could be as efficient and productive as possible.” TryingHomeMorningDaughterWake UpProductiveOrganize Author:Valerie Jarrett
“For me, as Yasmine, I do this every day. I wake up in the morning, and if I can do something to make someone feel better, I do it. I do not wait to be invited; I think that's the worst thing we can do. I make it my job to wake up every day and do one thing for one person and make them feel better.” ThinkingWaitingMorningWorstWake UpFeel Better Author:Yasmine Elmasri
“I was an incredibly devoted student, and I would often wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning to study. But even so, there were still people who thought that a girl like me with a background like mine wasn't really "college material."” PeopleGirlMorningStudyStudentsCollegeWake Up Author:Michelle Obama
“On the business side, innovative leaders are beginning to wake up to the fact that this non-stop work trend is bad for business: Google Ireland tested a program called Dublin Goes Dark, where employees turned over their phones at the end of each work day. It seems like a sea change is ahead.” DarkLeaderProgramWake UpEmployeeIrelandGoogleInnovative Author:Katrina Onstad
“Democrats losing elections. Donald Trump did win this. It's not illegitimate. And when the day comes that they realize and sober up that he's not going to be hounded out of office, that he's not gonna wake up one day and say to Mike Pence, "Here. Take the keys. I've had it." Then what are they gonna do? Because they're shooting every barrel they've got now. And they will probably continue. The think least we can make people hate him.” PeopleThinkingHateWinningRealizingOne DayOfficeLosingWake UpElectionDemocratSober Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I pledge to support the American workforce by wearing only American designers: Calvin Klein between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Donna Karan the rest of the year. Unless I wake up and the day is screaming for me to put on a bikini for my fellow Americans. Country first.” CountrySupportLaborWake UpDesignerMemorialPledgeMemorial DayLabor Day Author:Paris Hilton
“There is always going to be love versus hate; we struggle with that as humans within ourselves every day; as a society, we have to struggle. So when you wake up, you have to decide which side you're going to be on. Hopefully, that side is positive, so you do the work and hope that your legacy will help change things.” HelpingHateStruggleWake UpHopefullyLegacy Author:Taraji P. Henson
“Pretty much up until The West Wing, our leaders had always been portrayed in popular culture as either Machiavellian or dolts. But I thought, "What if we show a group of people who are highly competent, they're going to lose as much as they win, but we're going to understand that they wake up every morning wanting to do good?" That was really the spirit behind The West Wing.” PeopleSpiritCultureWinningLeaderMorningWake UpWhat IfEvery MorningPopular Culture Author:Aaron Sorkin
“I don't follow trends - it's more of an instinct thing. Honestly, I'm kind of my own worst client. I wake up and go, "I have nothing to wear!" But that's what makes it interesting. I ask, what would make me feel good? I think it's a constant challenge because clothes are so personal. For me, my clothes are related to my mood. If I feel like I'm not wearing the right thing, I don't feel confident. I think it's in everybody's psyche.” ThinkingKindChallengesInterestingWorstWake UpInstinctHonestlyMoodFeel GoodRight Thing Author:Maria Cornejo
“As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, 'justice lays down with you when you lay down, justice gets up with you when you get up.' The requirement of this universally applicable law is that you must do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. When you wake up, you wake up to that law that whatever you put out is going to come back.” DoneJusticeWake UpHonorableMuhammadElijah Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I think you should enjoy this life that you are given on this earth because we really don't know what it is in the afterlife. We can definitely prove that this life is this life here because we wake up every day and do the same thing that we do. The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.” PeopleThinkingEarthEnjoyHurtProveWake UpBliss Author:Charlie Benante
“That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just hope people wake up from the slumber they've willed themselves to. Because we're really in a dark place right now.” PeopleGivingDarkWake UpWillingnessComplacency Author:Karyn Kusama
“I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.” Wake Up Author:Chris Murphy
“When I wake up, I'll read something and I'll feel angry. And then I'll calm down a little bit. I'll think about it. And then I'll tweet something that talks about the issue, and if I can inject some satire and humor, I'll try to do that.” ThinkingTryingWake UpCalmSatireTweetCalm Down Author:Ted Lieu
“It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests. I remember I was really quite sad from Election Night last year until Jan. 20. And then I remember waking up Jan. 21 and seeing these amazing Women's Marches across America, and I thought to myself, That's the country that I know. And that's a larger populist movement that I'm seeing than Donald Trump's relatively small populist movement. And that gave me a lot of hope and energy, and from that day forward, I've taken a view that we'll flip the House next year.” ImportantCountryRememberNightHouseEnergyTakenWake UpElectionProtestMarchPopulistAmazing Woman Author:Ted Lieu
“Every day I wake up like, "This might be my last day, and I'm not scared of it. I'm gonna go out there, do what I gotta do; I ain't gonna let nothing stop me." Nothing puts any fear in my heart. I'm never scared to bite my tongue about something, or never be scared to come out and speak about something - that's what I mean. Like, I ain't scared of death. What you gonna do to me?” HeartMeanSpeakMy HeartWake UpScaredLast Day Author:Prodigy
“A lot of people will say to me, they'll say, "When is Trump going to be gone?" People who are thinking that way and are waiting, for those folks I worry that every day when they wake up and Trump is still president, every day is November 9. That's not a good headspace to be in. It just happens to be the case that the best thing you can do to feel better is to be actively engaged in pushing back, and that also happens to be the best thing that you can do for the country right now.” PeopleThinkingCountryWaitingPresidentWorryWake UpBeing The BestFeel BetterNovember Author:Jason Kander
“You need 10,000 hours to figure out how to be good at something and I agree with that to a certain extent. It's like everything you do to lead up to a great recording or great performance is everything you've done in the past and you can't just, it's rare that someone wakes up in a void and goes and wakes up and makes the most brilliant recording or performance.” DonePastHoursWake UpAgreeBe GoodBrilliant Author:Butch Vig
“I wake up every day super excited to be a woman! It's amazing. I wouldn't have it any other way. There's an incredible diversity of people writing comics right now. As a writer, there are a lot of parts that I was thinking about in terms of the specific experience of being a woman superhero and what that means - the kind of pressures that are on strong women, and how women are able to feel strong in a public world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingKindMeanStrongTermDiversityWake UpIncrediblesExcitedStrong WomenSuperhero Author:Mariko Tamaki
“I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was.” PeopleHelpingOne DayWake UpGuiltFocusedInnocence Author:Ezra Edelman
“It can be difficult going through a period of time where you feel depressed because it can become your identifier. In the sense that you wake up, you're depressed; you talk to your friends, you're complaining that you're depressed; you talk to your parents, you're unmotivated. You know what you could do to try to overcome it - although obviously there's no cure - but you start to feel like, 'what will happen to me if I feel better? Who am I when I'm happy. I'm so used to feeling like this.'” TryingFeelingsParentDifficultOvercomingWake UpComplainingFeel Better Author:Halsey
“The sound of madness is life. It's waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing the sound of the city, it's everything. Madness isn't necessarily a negative thing, it can be a positive thing. You know, hearing them cry for you, if you have children, is a great thing, it's your child.” ChildrenKidsMorningCryNegativeMadnessWake UpOur ChildrenGreat ThingsClockYour Children Author:Barry Kerch
“To have conscious communication with the angels - we all are continuously and unconsciously connecting with our angels, whether we know it or not - you would start in a place you feel comfortable, all by yourself, so you don't feel self-conscious. Then, just think of something you would like help with. For example, say, "Angels, I want a wonderful new job that exercises all my talents and everything I've learned - so I will wake up on Monday mornings and say 'Yippee!' - and that comfortably pays all my bills, plus some." You ask, and then the next step is to let go.” ThinkingHelpingMorningWonderfulTalentCommunicationExerciseLetting GoConsciousAngelWake UpMondayNew JobMonday Morning Author:Doreen Virtue
“I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.” WorldDreamOpportunityWishCuttingPrayingWake UpMessSurgery Author:Kelly Osbourne
“When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.” ThinkingWritingDifferentKidsNightForgetBrainWake UpImpulseSwimmingPoolMentorMultipleWriting Process Author:Mark Duplass
“When I close my eyes at night I'm able to go to bed with a heart full of gratitude. When I wake up in the morning my heart is full with thankfulness and peace. I don't know what tomorrow will hold, but I do know I will live each day to the fullest.” HeartEyeNightMorningTomorrowMy HeartGratitudeWake UpThankfulness Author:Lizzie Velasquez
“I don't even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that's really douchey. I think of myself as just like . . . a dance commander. You have to have dance parties all day and night, and you always have to be excited about having a dance party. You have to have a dance party in Milan one day, and then wake up and have a dance party at, like, four in the morning on national television in L.A. the next day. The hours are insane.” ThinkingNightHoursPartyMorningOne DayWake UpExcitedInsane Author:Kesha
“My idea of no makeup on actors is really no makeup. I mean, they can be wearing makeup. I don't care what they're wearing as long as it looks like they're not wearing makeup. But an actress will suddenly appear with some lipstick on. And that's makeup. Keener's character wears makeup. Her character would wear makeup. I try to stay true to whoever that person is. I hate that kind of thing where you're waking up in the morning with makeup on in a movie. I just think it pulls you out of the movie.” ThinkingTryingKindMeanLongCharacterCareHateMorningI HateWake UpMakeupLipstickStay TrueNo Makeup Author:Nicole Holofcener
“The journey of the soul is a vast, interconnected web, a meshwork of beings that are all working out their individual karmas in a collective gumbo, retaining the special flavor in each bite of life. But, the mystery of where we're going, in terms of whether we're going to have a planet that's worth living on after we finish abusing it, whether we'll wake up in time and stop ruining the water, land and skies is a big question mark.” SoulIndividualTermWaterMysteryJourneySpecialWake UpWork OutKarmaQuestion Mark Author:Alex Grey
“Folks who are alive today need to wake up and do what they can to stop abusing the planet, and find ways to preserve the web of life. That's where the soul is headed. It is time for us to become wounded healers.” SoulTodayWake UpLive For TodayHealer Author:Alex Grey
“Like anyone else, I go up and down. You wake up some days, and you're like, "Life is great." You wake up other days, and you're like, "This is so shitty. I just want to stay in bed." Right now, I feel confident that as long as I can keep the sound moving forward, this is something I'll be doing for at least another five years.” LongMovingWake UpMoving Forward Author:Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
“My dreams tend to be like dog dreams. I'm usually so tired that I hardly dream at all. In a way, I do think that the zone one performs in - without getting too ooga-booga about it - it's like that moment when you wake up in the morning and you're emerging from a dream state but you're not quite up. Where are you? Can you hear the birds? Or is that the traffic? It's that zone in which I perform. It’s like one foot in reality and one foot in a dream state. I spend most of my life in that state!” ThinkingMomentsDreamRealityMorningDogBirdWake UpTiredZoneEmerging Author:Cate Blanchett
“What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical - '68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because when we were going to sleep, we knew we would wake up not tomorrow, but in the future. There was a sense of future that was the result of the mixture of politics, cinema, music, the first joints. And the movies were a very important part of that cocktail.” PeopleImportantMomentsSleepTomorrowWake UpExcitedGoing To Sleep Author:Bernardo Bertolucci
“I don't even think any stimulants really help writing. You talk to most guys and they say, "Hey. I wrote this." And they're out of their head or they had a few beers or a bottle of whiskey. You wake up the next morning, it's usually pretty crap. But you know Dylan Thomas wrote some great poetry. Brendan Behan. You never know but ultimately I'd say you have to get up early in the morning and you're usually sober when you write your good stuff; it's hard work. So alcohol, keep it for chilling out, fun, and having a good time. Not for work.” ThinkingWritingHelpingGuyFunMorningHard WorkWake UpAlcoholBeerGood TimesCrapSoberChillDylanHaving A Good TimeWhiskeyGreat PoetGreat Poetry Author:Gavin Friday
“I try and get on my yoga mat at least three times a week, and if I don't, things start to unravel. I admire routine and ritual, but I am not inherently good at keeping a schedule. I eat at different times every day, I wake up at different times, I change my mind about things I was so sure of the day before. Perhaps I am too passionate, too willing to bend the rules in the name of fun, or to pass the time, or who knows what? Being on stage is truly what puts it all into perspective, and after I get on stage, I take a moment to reflect, and I am set for another 24 hours.” TryingMindDifferentMomentsFunHoursWeekPerspectiveYogaWake UpPassionateAdmireRitual Author:Sameer Gadhia
“What fuels my optimism is just an appreciation for life. I wake up every day thankful to be alive. I certainly have a lot to live for - not only personally, but all those people I'm fighting for, and to be with my kids, my wife Stacy, to see them grow and be a part of it. I'm certainly by no means ready to give up or cash in.” PeopleGivingMeanKidsFightingWifeGiving UpOptimismWake UpAppreciationMy Wife Author:Craig Sager
“I want everybody to find meaning in whatever they do. That's the only purpose to life, actually. Let that meaning be so strong that you can't not wake up every day and be like, "Yep, this is what I gotta do, let's keep it moving" and not be disgruntled about it, and start using other people as excuses for why you're not creating a better life for yourself.” PeopleMovingPurposeStrongWake UpExcuseBetter LifeFind Me Author:Ryan Guzman
“Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.” AbleWake UpGymWakingSoberGood DayPositive ThingsSober Up Author:Rodney King
“Twitter is the only brand of social media that I have ever taken to at all. I like the feeling of having my perception of the world expanded daily, 24/7, by being able to monitor the reactions of 100-and-some people throughout the world that I personally follow so I have some sense of who they are. There has never really been anything like that before, at least in terms of the digestible 140-character bandwidth that Twitter is based on. I am able to wake up, open Twitter, and sort of glance across the psychic state of the planet.” PeopleWorldFeelingsTermTakenPerceptionWake UpSocial Media Author:William Gibson
“You wake up, your life is discipline: there's kids, breakfast, lunch box, go to work, discipline, organization, guests. Imagine the semi-final of Super Bowl. We have that every day: lunch and dinner. We play that game. Then you come home and you really just want to drink a beer. But then you discipline yourself and you have to do this thing, this journal. It was painful but I'm so happy I did it. I have newfound respect for people that write.” PeopleWritingHomeKidsImagineDisciplineDrinkWake UpPainfulBeerComing Home Author:Rene Redzepi
“I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.” TryingBookKidsHoursWeekWake Up Author:Guillermo del Toro
“What we really are trying to do day to day now is to wake up every day and think about more activist behavior - what we can do to move the needle on the climate crisis, whether it is calling legislators or trying to win the conversation with someone who might not see the issues the way do.” ThinkingTryingMovingWinningBehaviorWake UpCrisisActivist Author:Jon Shenk
“It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.” ActionInterestingConsequenceWake Up Author:Tyler James Williams
“Love and faith are both a search, a process, it doesn't stay the same; it comes and goes. In some people, it's asleep for a long time and then it wakes up as it evolves.” PeopleLongWake UpEvolveFaith And Love Author:Olga Kurylenko
“I go to the gym whenever I can. I actually have to eat to keep the weight on when I am working because I tend to lose too much weight. I like to workout. I don't cook. Not really, I like good restaurants. And sometimes I get back from work and it is too late to eat dinner so I just go straight to bed and I wake up the next morning starving and have to eat cheeseburgers for the pure energy. But in general I am a pretty healthy eater.” SometimesEnergyMorningHealthyWake UpGymWorkoutCheeseburger Author:Rebecca Romijn
“I think the Oscar So White campaign really sparked ... Because you didn't want to be the Oscars, so everybody in Hollywood was like, well, before the heat comes down. The Golden Globes diversified. Just everybody ended up diversifying as far as handing out awards to more diverse folks in Hollywood because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what your race is. If you're waking up every day and you're doing the work, you deserve an opportunity to be awarded like everybody else.” ThinkingOpportunityDeserveWake UpDiverse Author:Tyrese Gibson
“Robert De Niro inspires me as a young actor; even at that age and even with that success you have to come to work fully prepared and ready to dive into it, it doesn't matter how far in your career you are. And that's what he did. It was a real wake up call for me because I know actors who let success get to their head and then it affects their work.” RealAgeInspireWake UpDe Niro Author:Victor Rasuk
“I just think that the gifts that God has given me and the attention that I have, I just don't feel like acting is the limit of it. I just feel like there's so much more that I could do...And, you know, every day I wake up and I try to do a little more and I just want the world to be different and better because I was here.” ThinkingWorldTryingDifferentActingAttentionWake Up Author:Will Smith