Bob Nelson Quotes
It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I try to get in some extra carbohydrates and protein the night before and during my pre-match meal. I also eat about 200 calories right after to help rebuild my muscles.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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The Vancouver Olympics was the first competition where I completed the short and free programs without any mistakes, and that in itself was a huge achievement.
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I was conscious of vocalists from an early age.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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Because I'd grown up with this singular focus on sports, I just kind of did that with acting. That became an obsession. How am I going to make it? How am I going to figure that out?
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It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
