Demetrious Johnson Quotes

I never cared who I was going to fight because, at the end of the day, it makes no difference.

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Small
  • Leadership
  • Bold

• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Black
  • Wish

• Writing is the supreme solace.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Communication

• The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Space
  • Sun
  • Stars

• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Year
  • Grow

• There are pros and cons to everything but especially with what I have chosen. There are cons - the privacy level and everything that comes with it - but I feel there are a lot more pros. And I am doing what I love to do, so I am not complaining at all.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Complaining
  • Level
  • Pros

• I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Long
  • Try

• If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Work
  • Nature

• The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Try

• My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Education

• Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Happy
  • Silly
  • Fools

• Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • Creative
  • Theater

• If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Happy
  • Focus
  • Skill

• Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Me

• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Past
  • Present

• I hope that upon this scorched earth we have planted the seeds of ideas that will bear the fruit of more diverse and inclusive stories that include people of color in the LGBT community.

  

  Wilson Cruz
  • Community
  • Seeds
  • Planted

• In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Done
  • Career

• As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.

  

  Walter Keane
  • Despair
  • Painter
  • Deception

• Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned.

  

  Derek Sivers
  • Search

• I never cared who I was going to fight because, at the end of the day, it makes no difference.

  

  Demetrious Johnson