Jacob Whitesides Quotes

I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.

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• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Focus
  • Gym
  • Very

• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Positive
  • Attitude
  • Stress

• I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Window

• Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Most

• In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Equality
  • Racism
  • Treat

• I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought they were good people, and therefore everything I do, I can do with sincerity.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Time
  • You
  • Honor

• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Business
  • America
  • Hope

• I didn't have a childhood.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Childhood

• Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Tool

• And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • People
  • Writing
  • Clarity

• 'She obeys me, but only because she wants to.''It’s the only justification for obedience,' Ged observed.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She

• Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Up
  • Giving

• In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Character
  • History
  • Humanity

• I could get your brains for a bargain, like I bought it from Target. Hip hop is my supermarket; shopping cart full of fake hip hop artists.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • Fake
  • Shopping

• I like rock music that has melody, but it also makes you wanna get up and dance.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Family
  • Age
  • Parents

• People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Listening
  • Sex

• I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Writing
  • Movie

• The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Culture
  • Words

• I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.

  

  Cheri Bustos
  • Writing

• Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

  

  David D. Burns
  • World
  • Health
  • Cold

• For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Live
  • Money
  • May

• I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.

  

  Jacob Whitesides