Blake Mycoskie Quotes

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Blake Mycoskie

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• Judi Dench has always been the benchmark for me. Everything I have seen her do is incredible. I also really admire Cate Blanchett. In terms of people I have worked with, there is no one more admirable than Hugh Jackman, for his spirit, energy, generosity and hard work.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Person
  • Dust

• I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fear

• We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

  

  Zhou Yongkang
  • Thoughts
  • Chaos
  • Stand

• I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Fact

• The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Real
  • Money
  • Business

• The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Job
  • Youth
  • Teen

• Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Positive
  • Learn
  • Negative

• 'Breaking Bad' has definitely opened many, many doors for me.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Definitely

• I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Dr. Ron Paul
  • Dr. Ron Paul Lite

• When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Up
  • Character
  • Young

• Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.

  

  Ovid

• I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

• I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.. ..victory after victory, laughing.. Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. she pauses ..My mother had victories. her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • She
  • Happy

• The two questions I always ask myself are 'What if' and 'Why not?

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Why

• I strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.

  

  Bob Beckel

• Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That's why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It's a field of vibrations - you can 'feel' someone else's thoughts when close to them.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Success
  • Faith

• No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Value
  • Growth

• I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of course there's a wound that will never be patched up, but I approach it with humor. Of course, I don't overlook it and go straight for the humor, but I think we have to have humor to move forward.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but "one weedy species". We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Novel
  • Human Beings
  • Extinction

• If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• TOMS is no longer a shoe company... we're a one-for-one company.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Shoe Company