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Amy Poehler Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“Because what else are we going to do? Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect? I believe great people do things before they are ready.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: opportunities, risks, chances
“Good or bad, the reality is most people become 'famous' or get 'great jobs' after a very, very long tenure shoveling shit and not because they handed their script to someone on the street.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer
“You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Career, Opinions, Passion
“Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Feelings, emotions, Depression
“Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: currency, Happiness, sexiness, Life, Self-awareness, Letting Go
“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they ‘want to do’ and start asking them what they don’t want to do.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: 20 somethings, Future, Career, Dreams, aspirations
“The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: kindness, Alone, Friendship
“A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren’t one story. We can change our stories.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Tragedy, Change, Choices
“Saying ‘yes’ doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying ‘please’ doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Permission, Personality
“Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Career, Passion, Learning
“The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don’t have, the happier you will be.”
— Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler Gets Real, Shares the Best Body Image Advice You May Hear From a Celeb
Tagged: Life
“I just love bossy women. I could be around the all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.”
— Amy Poehler, 37 Inspirational Strong Women Quotes with Images
Tagged: Amy Poehler, Strong Women, Independent
“I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how ‘bossy’ can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Bossy, boss, Leadership, leader
“I wrote this book after my kids went to sleep. I wrote this book on subways and on airplanes and in between setups while I shot a television show. I wrote this book from scribbled thoughts I keep in the Notes app on my iPhone and conversations I had in my own head before I went to sleep. I wrote it ugly and in pieces.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: How to be a writer, Writing
“He went on and on about how weird that was. He pointed out that people were really starting to know my name and asked me if  I 'could believe it.' 'Yes.' I said. I had worked for over a decade to get to this moment. I hadn't just dropped my script in someone's lap on a train. 'Can you?' I asked him.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer
“Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents.Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around. It will forget you birthday and wreck your car. Your career will blow you off if you call it too much. It's never going to leave its wife.Your career is fucking other people and everyone knows but you. Your career will never marry you. If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Career, Dating, Passion
“Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships or starve their beautiful bodies. But sometimes, you get a little older and get a little bored of the demon. Through good therapy and friends and self-love you can practice treating the demon like a hacky, annoying cousin. Maybe a day even comes when you are getting dressed for a fancy event and it whispers, ‘You aren’t pretty,’ and you go, ‘I know, I know, now let me find my earrings.’ Sometimes you say, ‘Demon, I promise you I will let you remind me of my ugliness, but right now I am having hot sex so I will check in later.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Self-Love, Happiness, Age, Youth, beauty, Self-Acceptance, Womanhood
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