Bobby Bowden Quotes
You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.
Quotes to Explore
-
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
-
In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
-
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
-
We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
-
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
-
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
-
I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
-
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
-
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
-
Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
-
I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
-
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
-
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
-
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
-
You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
-
About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
-
Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
-
I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
-
You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.
-
When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.
-
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
-
Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
-
I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
-
You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.
