Bobby Knight Quotes

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

Bobby Knight

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Why
  • She

• Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Together
  • Positive
  • Vote

• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • Suffering

• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Failure

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Fan

• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Try

• My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Mom

• My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Dream
  • Words
  • Dad

• Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing
  • Hollywood
  • Cinema

• I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Wish
  • Priorities

• I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Kids

• I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Guy
  • Style

• I am certainly humbled to receive the American Voice Award and join the ranks of so many people that I admire.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • People
  • American

• Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

  

  David Whyte
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Power
  • Trust

• I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Reading

• My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

  

  Bobby Knight
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Dad