Kristaps Porzingis Quotes

The only thing I focus on is just winning. Once we win, everyone remembers a winner. That's what I'm focused on.

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• When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Training
  • Boxing
  • Ready

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Bad
  • Fall
  • Myself

• I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Road
  • See
  • Cultures

• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Opportunities

• A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Art
  • Business
  • Focus

• To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Person

• Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Profession
  • Fatigue
  • Reinventing

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Language

• It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Fun
  • You
  • Control

• That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Way
  • Funny

• Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Winning
  • Hands
  • Witty

• We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke - whoever wrote those Gospels - used Mark as a focus and as a basic story. So all of them have a lot in common.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Together
  • Focus
  • Perspective

• I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Treasure
  • Suppose
  • Blasphemy

• The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities to be impressed with it.

  

  James Madison
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?

  

  C. F. W. Walther
  • Good
  • God
  • Man

• The only thing I focus on is just winning. Once we win, everyone remembers a winner. That's what I'm focused on.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Focus
  • Winning