David McCallum Quotes

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

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• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Career
  • Want
  • Kind

• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Brain
  • Same
  • Memory

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • Man
  • Find

• There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • More
  • Recovery
  • Rate

• I was definitely very much a country boy.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Country Boy

• When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• I love to add '90s trends mixed with modern day pieces I find along my many travels. Like these cool fun hats from Europe I have. I love to collect different ones from every country. I have them from London to Brussels.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Day

• With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Culture
  • City

• Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Women
  • Political

• I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • War
  • Peace
  • Stop

• I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Amazing
  • Things
  • Learn

• I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

  

  Gail Collins
  • House
  • Health
  • Car

• One of the hardest things is to create hope.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hope
  • Create
  • Hardest

• I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Lies
  • Criticism

• Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Chaos

• I like when people don't know what to expect.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Like

• I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Why
  • Perfect

• For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Political
  • Science

• An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Small

• The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Money

• Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Vulnerability

• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

  

  David McCallum