I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.Roisin MurphyTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.
“I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I didn't scrabble my way to the top. I just scrabbled my way to the middle!”Roisin MurphyScrabble
“You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.”Kate WalshLaurels
“It is important to move on from the laurels of the past. I can't let success go to my head.”Manoj BajpayeeLaurels
“When 'Games of Thrones' is finished, I'm not one to go on about it too long and rest on one's laurels. The stuff that interests me is the work.”Liam Cunningham
“Fashion in the mid-'90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be seen as more than an outline, so I used fashion to say that for me.”Roisin MurphyArtistic
“I really do prioritise humour in people. It's a sign of intelligence. One of the most important things I heard that moulded me was Derek and Clive. That sense of release when I heard them for the first time, crying and laughing, was akin to seeing Sonic Youth for the first time.”Roisin MurphyCrying
“I'm quite drawn to women artists who use themselves in their work. There is a very feminine point of view, the use of female archetypes. I love artists who play with those kind of things genuinely.”Roisin MurphyArchetypes
“You learn from the bad games and the bad tours. And, when things are going well, you think about that and you make the most of it. You don't get lazy; you don't rest on your laurels.”Joe RootLaurels
“When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best chance to shine.”Jennifer EganLaurels