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Sonya Gavankar, Image Expert

Sonya Gavankar is an award winning television personality who can be seen hosting programs on PBS, BGTV, and MHz Networks. Her career has spanned diverse programs from international food shows to hard news.

She serves as the face of the Newseum by hosting live interview programs, appearing in video installations, video blogs and game shows. She brings a cohesive voice to the Newseum’s 250,000 square feet of exhibit and interactive programming.

In her free time Ms Gavankar goes behind the camera. Her photography has been shown in several Washington area galleries and she is a casting director for independent films.

In 2013, she joined the Inkandescent team as the supervising producer for the growing TV shows on InkandescentTV.com.

Learn more about Sonya at sonyagavankar.com.

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical