Kay Granger Quotes

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Enemy

• Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Food

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Sports

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Today

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
  • Friends
  • Many

• If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • You
  • Give

• Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Read
  • Wrote

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Great
  • Alcohol

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Morning

• If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Time
  • Together
  • Communication

• I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

  

  Kay Granger
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mother