Knute Rockne Quotes

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Knute Rockne

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• I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Space
  • Always
  • Warm

• What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Dream
  • Start
  • Media

• We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Important
  • Sometimes
  • Start

• Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Law
  • Foundation
  • Stability

• Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Best
  • Challenge

• When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Relationship

• I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Great
  • Girl

• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Always
  • Progress
  • Hypocrisy

• Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Time
  • Character
  • Period

• My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • House

• We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Commitment

• Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Attitude
  • Will
  • Altitude

• There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Great
  • Women
  • Art

• Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • More
  • Two
  • Equal

• Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

  

  Colin Camerer
  • Family
  • Tree
  • Cousin

• We always knew Victoria was going into fashion, Mel C was going into music, Emma went into radio, and I wanted to do a bit of everything.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Fashion

• If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.

  

  Jessica Hahn
  • Blow

• When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.

  

  Jim Cantalupo
  • People
  • Different
  • Business

• We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

  

  Knute Rockne