Diego Godin Quotes

The mentality is always to win.

Diego Godin

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• I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Focus
  • Poet
  • Uncomfortable

• Education is the cheap defense of nations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Nations
  • Defense

• I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Different
  • Training

• I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Winning
  • Dreams
  • Awards

• I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Books

• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Freedom
  • Never
  • Given

• I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Family
  • Game
  • Career

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
  • Long
  • Self

• I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Woman

• I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Single
  • Space
  • Feelings

• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

  

  Vernon Law
  • She
  • Experience
  • Teacher

• I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Feeling
  • Easy
  • Ride

• When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.

  

  A. James Clark
  • High
  • Project
  • Did

• No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Guy
  • Picture
  • Wall

• People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Nice
  • Mistake

• If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Know
  • Question

• But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Music
  • Important
  • Culture

• The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Vanity
  • Night Birds

• I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Failure
  • Emotional

• Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Flying
  • Blow

• For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

  

  Valerie Miner
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Home

• I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

  

  Richard Li
  • Creating
  • Products
  • Manufacturing

• The mentality is always to win.

  

  Diego Godin