Nita Quotes

What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in. ~ Nita Ambani

Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player," Nita said, "I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live. ~ Nita Ambani

Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives. ~ Nita Ambani

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art. ~ Nita Engle

Nita stood there horrified. "You just killed him!"
"No," the Lone One said, "you did. Not a bad start, but then you were intent enough on killing something."
All around Nita, the snarling of the viruses was getting louder and louder. "Anyway, don't be too concerned about Pralaya; I'll find another of his people to replace him if there's need. Now, though, matters stand as I told you they stood. All we need is your conscious answer to the question. Can we do business?"
Nita stood there, frozen.
And another voice spoke out of the darkness.
"Fairest and Fallen," Kit said, "one more time ... greeting and defiance. ~ Diane Duane

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level. ~ Nita Leland

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family. ~ Nita Ambani

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness. ~ Nita Lowey

Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos. ~ Nita Leland

I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer. ~ Nita Ambani

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it? ~ Nita Ambani

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India. ~ Nita Ambani

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams. ~ Nita Ambani

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights. ~ Nita Ambani

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility. ~ Nita Ambani

Let yourself daydream sometimes ... Allow spontaneous images to come and go. Capture one in a sketch. These images express connections with your inner self. ~ Nita Leland

A traumatic past does not condemn us to a dysfunctional future. ~ Nita Lapinski

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi

You are so beautiful," he breathed. "Watching you come like that … feeling you come like that…. Christ, Nita, I could die happy."
She closed her eyes.
"No, don't baby. Keep your eyes open. I want you to stay with me while we kiss and whisper and f#ck. ~ Norah Wilson

Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others. ~ Nita Leland

I prefer to look at it another way-which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back. ~ Veronica Roth

Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck. ~ Nita Morgan

Gather knowledge ... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs ... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination. ~ Nita Leland

As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise. ~ Nita Ambani

Release and regulate the flow of your inborn creative energy to reach your artistic potential. ~ Nita Leland

Positive attitude accelerates your development as a creative person. Believe in yourself. ~ Nita Leland

Collage is like a hall of mirrors. Every direction you look, you see something different and visually stimulating. ~ Nita Leland

Nita drank her tea, watching Roshaun read while he maneuvered the lollipop from one side of his mouth to the other. The bulge it produced looked very out of place against his otherwise flawless facial structure.
Roshaun felt Nita's gaze resting on him, and looked up. "What?"
Nita controlled her smile. "The lollipop ... "
"What about it?"
"I hate to say this, but you're kind of spoiling your grandeur."
"What grandeur he has," Dairine remarked.
"Kings are made no less noble by eating," Roshaun said. "Rather, they ennoble what they eat."
"Wow, who sold you that one?" Nita said. ~ Diane Duane

The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear. ~ Nita Lowey

My husband is that rare man who is blessed with the ability to see the big picture but will not ignore the smallest detail. He will work an 18-hour day and still find time to help the kids with their homework. ~ Nita Ambani

Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode. ~ Nita Leland

Take imagination breaks ... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned. ~ Nita Leland

Sachin has been an integral part of Mumbai Indians and a source of inspiration for the team ever since the inception. ~ Nita Ambani

I tried to interest my daughter in dancing, but she didn't take to it. As a five-year-old, she got lost on the way to her first class. After that she didn't go to dance class again. ~ Nita Ambani

Where's my bed?!" Dairine shrieked.
"It's on Pluto," Nita said. "On the winter side, somewhere nice and dark and quiet, where you won't find it if you look all day-which you're not going to have time to do, becaus you'll be in school. ~ Diane Duane

Creativity needs to be exercised to grow strong. ~ Nita Leland

I have to give her what you did, don't I?" she said. "Enough of my personal information for Aurilelde to link to her own ... so that the congruency between us is complete, and all this works out the way it should ... "
Kit didn't say anything.
... But why wouldn't I? Nita thought. To make all this come out all right. She nodded to Irina. Irina nodded back, turned away.
And only then did it occur to Nita, with a shock, that this would mean it hadn't been Aurilelde who Kit had been so attracted to. It was her ... ~ Diane Duane

Don't be afraid to make corrections! Whether the voice came from her memory or was a last whisper from the blinding new star far above, Nita never knew. But she knew what to do. While Kit was still on the first part of the name she pulled out her pen, her best pen that Fred had saved and changed. She clicked it open. The metal still tingled against her skin, the ink at the point still glittered oddly- the same glitter as the ink with which the bright Book was written. Nita bent quickly over the Book and with the pen, in lines of light, drew from the final circle an arrow pointing up-ward, the way out, the symbol that said change could happen- if, only if- ~ Diane Duane

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help? ~ Ramez Naam

To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child. ~ Nita Leland

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool. ~ Nita Leland

Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique. ~ Nita Leland

I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team. ~ Nita Ambani

Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head. ~ Nita Engle

When friends couldn't be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it's up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee.
-Nita Callahan-
-So You Want To Be A Wizard- ~ Diane Duane

Yeah, I know, the Mars thing. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. When did you get the idea it would be cute to carve my dad's cell-phone number on a rock in the middle of Syrtis Major? He hates it when people call me on his phone."
Kit gave Nita a resigned look. "Sorry," he said, "I couldn't resist. ~ Diane Duane

Kit raised his eyebrows. 'You mean we should tell [Carmela] that being hot on Ronan is actually being hot on both a cranky Celto-Goth hottie and a senior Power-That-Is who spent most of the last ten years on earth wearing a macaw costume?'
Nita looked at him.
'Nah,' Kit said at last. 'Let's not say anything. Let's just let it play out.' And then Kit broke up laughing.
Nita's look grew annoyed. 'You're enjoying the idea,' she said.
'Oh yeah!' Kit managed to say. It took a while to get control of his laughter. ~ Diane Duane

When my kids were very young, I have seen them crying, as they didn't want to go to school. ~ Nita Ambani

Whatever direction your life takes, your underlying themes remain. Discover and explore your themes to open the way for rich creative development. ~ Nita Leland

I was a teacher once. ~ Nita Ambani

The pain in Vinay's voice disturbed Radhika. "Shangri-La is a state of mind, Vinay. If you're happy, then everything around you will be okay and in harmony. Nothing is perfect anywhere. We must find our own paradise amidst the chaos. Just the way a beautiful lotus blooms in dirty water. ~ Nita Bajoria (The Leap)

Well, all cricket invites attention. ~ Nita Ambani

I love you, Nita. Will you spend the winters putting up with my growly ass and the summers mating with me in every way possible? ~ Milly Taiden

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential. ~ Nita Ambani

When bad things happen to men we say it's terrible, but when bad things happen to women we say that's just a cultural practice, says Lou de Baca, U.S. Ambassador at Large, Office to Combat and Monitor Human Trafficking. ~ Nita Belles

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl. ~ Nita Ambani

Every day, when I am working with my boys, I tell them as long as you put in your best efforts, I am there to back you. But the day I find your energy flagging on the field, the day I find you have not put in your best, that's when I will be really upset and sad. ~ Nita Ambani

Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color in the same way, nor do they give it as much importance as in western culture. ~ Nita Leland

In a weird, twisted way, Nita almost felt like Kovit's and her stories were opposite facets on the same diamond. Different, sure, but similar in some fundamental ways. It made Nita feel . . . weird. Squiggly, not-quite empathy, but sort of fear-empathy . . . something. Nita couldn't put it into words. ~ Rebecca Schaeffer

I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am. ~ Nita Ambani

I like to have everything smiley and happy for my husband. Men don't want to see a grumpy face at the end of a hard day. ~ Nita Ambani

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world. ~ Nita Ambani

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs. ~ Nita Ambani

We are very happy to have Sachin as the Mumbai Indians Icon. I am sure the youngsters in the team will be delighted to have him around for guidance, and so would be the Mumbai Indians fans. ~ Nita Ambani

Sachin is the soul of Mumbai Indians, and I am sure he will guide Bhajji as he takes on the responsibility of captaining Mumbai Indians. ~ Nita Ambani

Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is
this business is for saints, not children!"
Even saints have to start somewhere," Carl said softly. "And it's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image. ~ Diane Duane

I've been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think,
"Can't they tell? "

- Nita, September 18, 1984 ~ Sarah E. Olson

Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential. ~ Nita Leland

Don't dwell on your mistakes. Set achievable goals: a confident line, effective use of values, interesting shapes, exciting texture. ~ Nita Leland

When did you cross over into serial killer territory, Nita? ~ Rebecca Schaeffer

An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will. ~ Nita Ambani

Listening to music as preparation or background for your work brings you into a creative mood ... choose one type of music to calm down, another to reach a higher energy level, depending on the artwork you are doing. ~ Nita Leland

The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects- not the reason, the purpose. ~ Diane Duane

Fred started to follow, but Nita caught him in cupped hands, holding him back for a moment. "Fred! Did we do right?" Even here she couldn't keep the pain out of her question, the fear that she could have somehow have prevented his death. But Fred radiated a serene and wondering joy that took her breath and reassured her and filled her with wonder to match his, all at once. Go find out, he said. ~ Diane Duane

If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth. ~ Nita Leland

Except when the freedom is one you don't choose to grant," Memeki said, more loudly this time. She was shaking herself all over, struggling to stand stright again. "You hold our hope with one claw and take it away with her other! I may be weak and doomed soon to die, but I will die as an I, not just one more nameless scarp of shell to be thrown out into the sucking mud! No matter how little a time it lasts, I will be what all these are" -she looked around at Kit and Ponch and Nita and the others-"selves unto themselves and being what matters to each other! Such a life, even a breath's worth of it, is better than anything you've ever given me!" Memeki was trembling again, but with passion with determinatin, desperate and doomed. She took a stem toward the dias, and another, her claw lifted not in that old gesture of submission, but in one more like a warrior's threat. "I will be what the Voice said I was, the Hesper I will be the Aeon of Light, the Power that made a different choice from yours. I will be the Star that did not fall, no matter how little a time the light lasts! ~ Diane Duane

Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets."
"The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna once risked herself and the rest of her crew to help me escape from an oil fire ... Your father commands fleets. And thousands of half-men, I am sure. But would he risk himself to save a single one? ~ Paolo Bacigalupi

Nita stood still, listening to Joanne's footsteps hurrying away, a little faster every second- and slowly began to realize that she'd gotten what she asked for too- the ability to break the cycle of anger and loneliness, not necessarily for others, but at least for herself. It wouldn't even take the Speech; plain words would do it, and the magic of reaching out. It would take a long time, much longer then something simple like breaking the walls of the worlds, and it would cost more effort than even reading the Book of Night with Moon. But it would be worth it- and eventually it would work. A spell always works. Nita went home. ~ Diane Duane

I want to marry you because you're the one, Nita. Period." He pinned her with his gaze, fierce and outrageously blue. "I've never felt like this before. I want to lie beside you and just listen to you breathe. When I've had a shitty day, I want to come home to you and lay my head in your lap and feel your hands on my face. And when you've had a shitty day and it feels like one more straw is gonna break your back, I want to be there to carry the load for you. I want you to tell me your darkest fears, and be able to tell you mine. ~ Norah Wilson

July 15, 1991

Nita: My mother was a paragon of our neighborhood, People always come up to us with hugs, saying "You have the most wonderful mother." l'd think. "Don't you see what's going on in this house?" To this day, if somehow even in jest raises their hand to me, I will do this (raises hands to protect face and cowers) I cringe. Then they look at me like, what's your probem? You don't get that from a great childhood. ~ Sarah E. Olson

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society. ~ Nita Ambani

There's something odd about the primary's flare pattern."
"Wouldn't be surprised," Dairine said. "I chucked a black hole into it."
Roshaun put his eyebrows up. "Stars in your neighborhood seem to have a rough time of it."
"If ours acts weird, talk to Nita," Dairine said, rather annoyed. "First time it went out was on her watch. ~ Diane Duane