Mark Parker Quotes
Nike is at its best when we focus on the future. Sport is in a constant state of progression. Athletes are expanding their potential every day - and so must we.
Quotes to Explore
-
It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
-
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
-
I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
-
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
-
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
-
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
-
I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
-
Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
-
I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
-
Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
-
I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
-
There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
-
If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
-
You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
-
It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
-
The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
-
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
-
I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.
-
A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.
-
A few decades ago, the Irish decided they were tired of being always near the bottom of Europe's economic indicators. So they envisioned a better future for their country, and they put their people on the right road to get there.
-
There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
-
I grew up in a conservative New England town and showed up to my middle school orientation dressed like 'Clueless' while everyone else was wearing J. Crew and lacrosse uniforms. I never really fit into that preppy look.
-
Nike is at its best when we focus on the future. Sport is in a constant state of progression. Athletes are expanding their potential every day - and so must we.
