Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes

When I go places, I'm very much spotted, but I'm definitely ready for it and the opportunities it's going to bring.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

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• I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Job

• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Business
  • Driving
  • Horizon

• I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • You
  • Small

• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Better
  • Loss
  • Getting Better

• Angela Merkel puts Germany first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • First
  • Germany
  • Puts

• People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Think
  • Tea

• The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Staring

• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Life
  • Music
  • Death

• This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • May
  • High
  • Me

• Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Unexpected

• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • History
  • First
  • Civilization

• I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Moonlight

• Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Today
  • Serious

• I’m a geek, I’m a geek, I’m a power tool. When I sing this song, I look like a fool.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh
  • Power
  • Song
  • Fool

• Be honest about who you are and what your bringing to the table and what your expectations are.

  

  Gabrielle Dennis

• I want to have a long career in the NBA. First, I want to be an All-Star, and hopefully one day I can win a ring with the New York Knicks.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Long
  • Career
  • Star

• He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Respect
  • Politeness
  • Aversion

• When I was 14, I did all kinds of different odd jobs. I had a chicken farm, had an ice cream operation in the summertime, worked as a caddy; all things to make money and save money. Save money in order to invest - that was the first step, though I never really accumulated very much because of other demands like bicycles and things like that.

  

  Charles Schwab
  • Different
  • Money
  • Summertime

• When I go places, I'm very much spotted, but I'm definitely ready for it and the opportunities it's going to bring.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.