“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
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Voices on morning
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
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“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.”
“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
“The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'”
“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”
“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'”
“I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.”
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
“This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.”
“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
“I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.”
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”
“Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?”
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.”
“I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.”
“If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.”
“Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”
“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.”
“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”
“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.”
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”