“I'm 44 now; I feel better than I did when I was 34. I've got more clarity now. I wake up in the morning, and I write my blog, and then I go upstairs, and I work on music. And I do that every day. That's what I do. I don't check in once a week and think, "Oh, I've gotta come up with something now." I'm always writing. I was just in a coffee shop in Chelsea last night, just killing time, waiting for a friend, and I sat and wrote enough for three good songs. I love it. This is my life. It's all I do.” ThinkingWritingEnoughNightSongWaitingMorningWeekWake UpKillingCoffeeClaritySatFeel BetterLast NightCoffee ShopTime To Kill Author:Bob Mould
“I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, "I'm an actor." I have it in my blood. It's in every pore of my body. There's always something awesome about every project, even with the worst ones. I try to remind myself every time I think about complaining that there are way worse jobs than mine.” ThinkingTryingMorningWorstWake UpCommittedComplainingInsaneEvery Morning Author:Lindy Booth
“Because I worked in fashion, I know that I like fashion. Haute couture is a form of art that I can appreciate. I'm definitely not someone who wakes up every day and thinks about what I'm going to wear, but on the red carpet, it's reflective of the mood I'm in, or the movie I'm going to represent.” ThinkingArtFashionAppreciateWake UpMoodCarpetRed Carpet Author:Diane Kruger
“Everyone of us wakes up in the morning, goes to the bathroom, looks in the mirror and asks: "Who am I? Who am I today? Do I feel good enough? Do I feel big enough? Do I feel sexy enough?" Some days, the answer is 'yes' but sometimes it's not.” SometimesEnoughTodayMorningWake UpSexyFeel GoodGood EnoughBathroomI Feel Good Author:Aksel Hennie
“A great day on tour would be if I would say a two-hour drive, so you can wake up and you don't have to leave right away. You can go get breakfast somewhere nice that someone recommends in the town, and it turns out to be good. Then you can kind of check out the town, someone might recommend you to a cool thrift store, a record store, a nice park or something. You can have some time to yourself.” KindNiceWake UpBe GoodThriftGreat Day Author:Kevin Morby
“I wake up in the night screaming sometimes when I've had a fight with my husband, more than with the company. I still sleep very well. I take it day by day. I am a very pragmatic person. That's how I survive.” SometimesNightFightingSleepHusbandWake UpMy HusbandPragmatic Author:Frida Giannini
“The sense of waking up in the morning and knowing that there is music ahead of me in the day is such an incredible feeling. The more I engage with music the more days I wake up and know that that's what's going to be there, and the things that come with music.” FeelingsMorningWake UpIncredibles Author:Will Oldham
“My jogging is the best thing in my life. Wake up in the morning and jog. Come to the gym and train my ass off. Be fit, make myself fit. Feel like a man. Because when you get to the ring and you start to get tired, it's very bad.” MenMorningFitWake UpTiredTrainRingsAssGym Author:Joshua Clottey
“Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it again and think, "Actually, that's not so bad."” ThinkingSometimesSleepMorningPaintingWake UpGoing To Sleep Author:Rebecca Horn
“Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!” StillsLostWorstWake UpWorst ThingsRuinedLost Everything Author:Sam Kinison
“One of the things that makes me the most nervous is that the Middle East has historically had a sense of predictability. You may have a terrorist incident or you may have a revisionist regime like the Iranians, but on the whole, the region is twenty countries. On the whole, you go to bed and you wake up and you have a pretty good idea that most of those twenty are doing just fine, you don't have to pay attention to them. There's some stuff going on but you don't have to worry about a governmental overthrow that will suddenly force you to evacuate your embassies.” CountryAttentionWorryWake UpTerroristNervousPay AttentionPredictability Author:Ilan Berman
“I didn't sit down and write a song like, "I want to write a song about this," but I just spent so much time living in this affectively charged space of the live show, with its risks and the incredible reward that comes from people knowing me, recognizing me, affirming me. And then I would wake up in the morning and have an eight-hour drive where I would read George Saunders and listen to Grouper and Pure X. And you bond so much with your tour-mates and your bandmates because it's this weird, quite desperate way of living.” PeopleWritingSongMorningRiskWake UpIncrediblesDesperateAffirming Author:How to Dress Well
“I do really well when a challenge is put in front of me. I don't just wake up and write. I like being forced to make decisions on the spot. I think that's why I've done so many things as a freelancer.” ThinkingWritingDoneChallengesDecisionWake Up Author:Njena Reddd Foxxx
“I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.” DesireInterestDecisionPerceptionWake UpWorried Author:David Gordon Green
“My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up and everyone I know is like LOL JK BEST LONG - RUNNING PRACTICAL JOKE EVER, so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything. Not in an effort to be cool or not care or anything, just out of neurosis.” TryingLongCareRunningEffortJokesExpectationsWake UpExcitedDisappointedFreakMottoBeing CoolPractical Joke Author:Tavi Gevinson
“I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a draw for me - to awaken me and have me bound out of bed and go to my office.” EnoughUniverseOfficeWake UpCoffeeCoffee Cup Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Nothing's been changed overnight. It's like watching your cat grow: you see it every day, so you don't really see it change, you wake up one day and it's a bloody great thing. Your friends come round who you haven't seen for a couple months and they're like, "Oh my god, your cat's grown so much again." And I'm like, "Has it?" But when you're living it... I just find that my life has subtly changed bit by bit, so I don't ever really notice it too much.” ChangedCoupleOne DayCatWake UpGreat ThingsBloody Author:Douglas Booth
“Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.” PeopleThinkingPhilosophyEasyWake UpManageRight ThingFooledDoing The Right Thing Author:M.I.A.
“Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.” ThinkingMorningWake UpEvery MorningSpontaneityTime To Think Author:Jacques Audiard
“The drinking was getting way out of control. I just didn't recognize myself anymore. I didn't know what I was doing or where I was. I always had to have some drinks with me in my bag. Just waking up shaking and then having Bloody Marys on your own, first thing in the morning-I started to feel really pathetic about it. So I was like, "I can't live like this." It was just this really awful feeling of becoming a totally different person and not being able to control it at all. Then I tried to not drink, but that didn't work. So I figured I should just go to rehab.” DifferentFeelingsDrinkWake UpDrinkingBloodyPatheticShaking Author:Lara Stone
“I have faith in the pendulum swinging. Right now it's so far against the wall that it can't go any farther; it's gonna start to swing back. That's my optimism. One of the cures is gonna be getting the American people to fully wake up. All the American people, particularly young people, because they're gonna inherit this earth; they're gonna inherit what we're doing.” PeopleEarthWallOptimismWake UpHave Faith Author:Robert Redford
“Luckily for me, most of my work is through a brand or client who approaches my agent. Before I began modeling, I never realized how many barriers there were for people with disabilities within the industry. I didn't realize how much prejudice and ignorance existed. That made me even more determined to break down the barriers and to wake up the industry to the fact that beauty shows up in all different shapes, sizes and abilities.” PeopleDifferentRealizingAbilityBreakIgnorancePrejudiceWake UpDeterminedBarriersDisabilityBreaking DownModeling Author:Kelly Knox
“Strangely, meanness pays more than offering constructive and interesting commentary. Every season I think, "This is the last season. I'm not gonna read tomorrow morning. Forget it." The first thing when I wake up - quite late, usually - I am craving the newspaper.” ThinkingForgetInterestingMorningTomorrowWake UpCravingForget ItMeanness Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere
“If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to be good, then you'll worry. But we need to embrace the idea that, "No, I'm putting that aside, over there, in a box. I'll open that box when I wake up in the morning and deal with it then." I really find that men tend to do that, and it's great to be able to do.” PeopleMenDesireMorningWorryWake UpEmbraceBe GoodEquilibrium Author:Nicole Kidman
“You wake up because you killed someone and you're afraid of going to jail. And the moment you wake up you feel safe and it's over and you can meet that person in the street and you're not going to jail. The good thing about dreams is that they erase some kind of desire, because after your dreams you feel you've done it, and you're relieved.” KindDoneMomentsDreamDesireWake UpGood ThingsEraseRelieved Author:Gaspar Noe
“You feel like you want something, but you don't actually know what that is. I remember waking up the other night and really craving something, but not knowing what it is. That feeling has been prominent throughout my whole life. I think I try and fill that thing with lots of different things. I can't really stay still. I can't really not be stimulated. It's kind of a search of constant stimulation through other people, substances and stuff. I think that's what our lyrical content is about.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentFeelingsRememberNightLike YouWake UpWhole LifeCravingLyrical Author:Matthew Healy
“They call me Freestyle Freddy and I'm always ready to rap. Even when I wake up from a nap. Economic devastation's kinda sweeping the nation. It's time for us to wake up and get an education.” EconomicWake UpRapCall Me Author:Fredric Brandt
“I can tell that sometimes I live a very good moment and I'm very joy- ful and optimistic, so I can see more bright colors in my collection. [laughs] Other times I feel so depressed and so sad and I see a lot of darkness. So it really depends. Of course, there are certain rules you have to operate by in terms of markets, and for summer and for winter. But at the end of the day, you are a person and you put a lot of yourself into the clothes. You know, I can never decide what I am going to wear on the day of the show. It depends a lot on which mood I wake up in that day, so I never know.” SometimesMomentsTermDarknessLaughingSummerWake UpWinterVery GoodMoodOptimisticSo Sad Author:Frida Giannini
“My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave it in a hotel and get really embarrassed about the maid picking it up, wondering what in the hell I'm talking about.” WritingWonderHellWake UpHotelEmbarrassedGet Real Author:Caitlin Rose
“And I know that sounds outrageous, but it's true. Such monopolies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are trying to stay with us from the moment that we wake up in the morning until the moment that we go to bed at night. They want to become our personal assistants. They want to become the vehicles to deliver us news, entertainment, to track our health. They want to obey our every beck and call through Amazon Alexa and Google Home.” TryingMomentsHomeNightMorningWake UpTrackVehicleGoogle Author:Franklin Foer
“If I have a good dream and I wake up happy. When I have an idea, I feel happy. Sometimes achievement and relationships can make me happy. I have a son and to see him grow - he's 22 now - that makes me happy.” SometimesDreamSonAchievementWake UpMake Me HappyGood Dream Author:Michel Gondry
“Other countries have outeducated us. They have made this a priority. And a big part of what I'm trying to do, frankly, is raise the profile of education and get America to wake up.” TryingCountryWake UpPrioritiesProfile Author:Arne Duncan
“Other countries haves passed us by. They're outworking us. They're outcompeting us. We have got to wake up and we have got to start moving.” CountryMovingWake Up Author:Arne Duncan
“I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family. A lot of times in the evening, I'll write down what my goals are for the next day; When I wake up, I look at that list again. I meditate.” WritingKidsGoalGratitudeMy FamilyWake Up Author:Barbara Corcoran
“When you're a former president, you have much less power, but you have a lifetime of experience and contacts and if you've got the energy, you can bring influence to bear on a small but still fairly substantial number of things where you can concentrate on it because you don't have to change the subject when you wake up in the morning and there's something else in the newspaper.” EnergyPresidentMorningInfluenceWake UpLifetime Author:William J. Clinton
“There were a few verses that I wrote literally on the spot. But the concept was there. It's about being in your own world musically and waking up in the morning and walking outside and being consumed by everything around you. Just being aware of the good things in art and music and life. It's also about how the world is at a boiling point, in a way.” WorldArtMorningWalkingWake UpGood ThingsVerses Author:Kurt Vile
“Really, every day is the perfect day to boss up. Every day that you wake up is a perfect day to boss up. It's all about continuing to put one foot in front of the next. That's what it's about. Whatever you think you're going through, just put one foot in front of the next.” ThinkingPerfectWake UpBoss Author:Rick Ross
“My mom has a diary entry or something where I wrote, "I think Steven Tyler is my father." I had the same feelings for Todd Rundgren, who raised me as his daughter. I would go to sleep at night and wake up at like 6 in the morning and creep up the little steps to the tower where he would be on his computer. I would just sit there.” ThinkingFeelingsNightFatherSleepMorningMomComputerDaughterWake UpMy MomGoing To Sleep Author:Liv Tyler
“From the time I wake up until the time I go to bed, music is unfortunately on my mind, on my stereo, or I'm making it or talking about it.” MindMusic IsWake Up Author:Kevin Drumm
“The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a sleep that you can't even wake up from, because you might remember what you did when you were there. There's no place for them - there should be a rehabilitation center on every corner, along with McDonald's and the banks. This is serious business. The waiting lists are incredible. I mean, it's terrible. It's really terrible.” MeanChildrenRememberWaitingSleepSeriousTerribleDrugWake UpIncrediblesHungry Author:Toni Morrison
“Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on. This is not leading to a good conclusion, unless the world wakes up. This is not what I was living through 50 years ago.” WorldCountryLeaderBattleWake UpConclusionNuclear WeaponsGreat Leader Author:Robert Downey, Sr.
“I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.” DoeWishMorningWake UpEvery MorningTammy Author:Tammy Faye Bakker
“When I talk to people the usual progression is, "Flogging's cruel and barbaric," moving very quickly to, "Only 10 lashes for five years?" Then I do worry, actually. On the one hand, once you start quibbling about the number of lashes, I've won. But on the other hand, people who say flogging's not cruel enough... I mean, well, what have we become? God forbid I wake up a couple years from now and we have even longer sentences and we flog people. I mean, then I might jump out a window.” PeopleMeanEnoughMovingWorryCoupleWindowWake UpProgression Author:Peter Moskos
“I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.” WorldEffortWake UpExtraordinary Author:Joshua Ferris
“When people are not in a prison cell they believe they are free and happy. That's not true. Because in Istanbul, the modern person wakes up at 5 o'clock or 6 o'clock in the morning, gets on the bus for two hours to get to work, works at least ten hours, sometimes twelve or fourteen, then comes back home, just to make some money to pay for rent and food. That's not a human being's life. That's the life of a worm in the earth. That's the life of an insect.” PeopleBelieveSometimesHomeEarthHoursMorningModernWake UpPrisonBus Author:Burhan Sonmez
“Simple DNA gradually morphed and evolved, so that you had the coming into being of ever more complex and diverse creatures, until one day you wake up and find there are peacocks and giraffes. Nature is an open-ended experiment based on morphing a DNA code, and ours is an open-ended experiment based on morphing a crochet code.” SimpleOne DayWake UpCodeDiverseGiraffePeacock Author:Margaret Wertheim
“We've seen it in the last U.S. presidential campaign 2016: both sides were trading graphs and circulating data visualizations to make their point. So the political establishment is waking up to the power of a good graph as well.” PoliticalWake UpPresidentialTradingVisualizationPresidential Campaign Author:David Mccandless
“I used to get pissed every day. I would wake up and pick up my phone and look at the alerts, and it's like, "What am I gonna read today?" But then I realized I needed to try and be as grateful as I could possibly be. What we're in need of is a greater leadership that's inclusive and truly hears the people and doesn't have a knee-jerk reaction out of anger. Scenarios like this, while divisive, also clarify what we really want in the future. And we'll have a chance in a few years to cast another vote, and we'll see where the American people are when that time comes.” PeopleTryingTodayChanceVoteWake UpGratefulI Realized Author:Dwayne Johnson
“You don't wake up in the morning and think, I'm going to be so bad today. I'm going to be a nasty villain to everyone. No, you just wake up and do your own thing.” ThinkingTodayMorningWake UpVillainNasty Author:Stanley Weber
“Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.” TryingUseTodayAdvantageWake UpGestures Author:Jeff Koons