Christian Siriano Quotes

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

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• I believed I was invincible.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believed
  • Invincible

• Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Art
  • Vision
  • Jazz

• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Power
  • Society

• Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • World
  • Gold
  • Race

• My worst expectations never happened.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Never
  • Worst
  • Expectations

• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Risk
  • Run

• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Myself
  • New

• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Real
  • Ideas

• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Life
  • View

• It's brutal out on the football field.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Football
  • Field
  • Brutal

• Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Political
  • Become

• You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Basketball

• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Years
  • Create
  • Intelligence

• A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Problem
  • Musicians

• Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Game
  • Thought
  • Moment

• What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Support
  • Moving
  • Process

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off.

  

  Bob Kersee
  • People
  • Athlete
  • Coach

• Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Giving

• He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.

  

  Ashoka
  • Injury
  • Reverence
  • Sect

• Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Business

• Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Business

• When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Business
  • Running