Liz Murray Quotes

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Many a false step is made standing still.

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

Postponement: The father of failure.

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.