David Robinson Quotes
The biggest challenge was becoming a leader and taking our team to the highest level. Feeling the personal responsibility to take the team to the next level. Overcoming fear of inadequacy and never getting down on yourself or doubting who you are.
Quotes to Explore
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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Good material is good material.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. It's - they're cherished treasures to me now, of course.
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A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.
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We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.
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Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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The biggest challenge was becoming a leader and taking our team to the highest level. Feeling the personal responsibility to take the team to the next level. Overcoming fear of inadequacy and never getting down on yourself or doubting who you are.
